Zepp Twofist
Member
I've noticed lately that whenever I try searching for anything more complicated than the most basic types of searches on google, it returns generic results related to whatever I am searching for regardless of how specific I make the search. I can even completely change the entire wording of the search, and get the exact same result page. This leads me to believe that google heavily modifies whatever query you input to the most popular search based on keywords from your query.
This probably makes google better for the vast majority of searches. You can for example get the right result if you misspell every single word of your query or ask questions in natural grammar, but it makes my job searching for technical problems significantly harder.
Just today I was searching for a somewhat obscure error relating to calendars in MS Outlook, but every result is just tutorials on how to send meeting requests, even when I specifically include keywords like "error" or "problem" and stuff like that. I've had similar problems before, and I feel this specifically has gotten worse over the past year or two.
In the past I felt like I could manipulate google to provide the exact results I wanted, but now I feel it twists my searches to fit whatever it thinks most people would search for.
This probably makes google better for the vast majority of searches. You can for example get the right result if you misspell every single word of your query or ask questions in natural grammar, but it makes my job searching for technical problems significantly harder.
Just today I was searching for a somewhat obscure error relating to calendars in MS Outlook, but every result is just tutorials on how to send meeting requests, even when I specifically include keywords like "error" or "problem" and stuff like that. I've had similar problems before, and I feel this specifically has gotten worse over the past year or two.
In the past I felt like I could manipulate google to provide the exact results I wanted, but now I feel it twists my searches to fit whatever it thinks most people would search for.