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by moultano 3888 days ago
If you'd like to share the query I'd be really interested to debug.
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I don’t have one specific query – it is EVERY query where Google will ignore 90%+ of the words I entered, and show me around 5 related results, and otherwise completely bullshit results, with no way to see more.
Use [Search Tools] => [All Results] => [Verbatim] that is a known issue for people who have been using Google Search for years. There are many discussions about this topic, like: https://www.webmasterworld.com/google/4744658.htm
Even that doesn’t solve all issues – it still shows results that are irrelevant to my query and do not even match the query.

It should not be hard to convert a query into a regex for content, title and URL and apply it on the index.

That sounds really frustrating. Any examples you can give would really help to debug.
Often the issue occured with searching technical things, like, I copy-pasted a python exception, and Google would tell me where to download python and which python books to get and that python is a type of snakes.

It’s incredibly frustrating, but if I, by accident, use Google again and see the issue, I’ll tell you.

Here, a recent case, where Google tries to completely ignore half of my query: https://www.google.de/search?q=TLD+.gov.sa