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by jimminy
1916 days ago
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This has been a thing since Google did their RankBrain update 5 years ago. They essentially released a system that used ML to negotiate unknown "long-tail" queries into more common queries and then returned the common queries results. One of the immediate effects was quoted strings became less relevant, sometimes completely ignored, and a lot of the other tools for negotiating with system were lost. It's only continued to progressively get worse since then. |
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Ye it has got worse alright. I don't know the timeframe since it has been a slow boil.
Easy queries like "who is the king of Spain" has got priority over hard queries making hard queries even harder.