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by smt88 3067 days ago
Google Search so aggressively massages my queries that it's become almost unusable.

I recently searched "80's rom-coms" and an instant answer came up on top. It was a list of 90's rom-coms. Similar, yes -- but not at all what I typed, and completely useless to me.

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That’s just general search. When looking for code issues and snippets it’s worse

Don’t even get me started with github. Half of humanity’s code seems to be in some bucket that doesn’t understand punctuation when you search

bing seems to get this right in both instant search and otherwise.
I'm slowly switching to Bing--not because Bing is getting better, but because Google is getting worse. Google consistently ignores key terms in my queries, and searches are getting slower and slower. Remember when Google used to have that little timer in the top-right corner of the search results? Not anymore...
I'm glad it's not just me.