Well, you used to be able to use "sofa" with google, which would exclude 'couch' etc. but then they killed that. Still works with other search engines.

> Why not? I consider sofa and couch to be synonyms. This lets me do two searches in one.

For you. For this one use-case. Which may or may not be good.

It's the effect of this scaled up, for all use-cases Google's cluster can identify, for all users which is bad. It's one of the reasons I use DDG instead of Google these days.

sometimes you dont want that eg try to find solutions for open directory problems on OSX Server (as the docs for OSX server are F%$^ S%^t) you get lost a low quality results about how to make OSX work with Micrsofts AD!

if I wanted those results I would search with Acive directoy as part of the flipping query!