[leoh]

> Almost never works these days. Google now usually just quantizes your search terms into an ad or ultra popular news article written 3 minutes ago. It also ignores all your operators most of the time.

I'm sorry, this makes zero sense and even if it did, is patently false. This feature works and I use it all the time.

[skinkestek]

> I'm sorry, this makes zero sense and even if it did, is patently false. This feature works and I use it all the time.

Lucky you.

I can confirm qyis observations: it started to ignore me sometime around 2008 and hasn't worked reliably since. We have tried to tell them since then.

I know Google runs a lot of experiments all the time but this one has been morenor less consistently ignored for me.

[leoh]

Can you offer a concrete example?

[skinkestek]

Here you are, that is unless Google has misspelled their own name a bunch of times on their own pages in a tiny font, white on white or otherwise unreadable:

https://www.google.com/search?hl=nn&q=%22goolge%22

Edit: this used to work before and sometimes works now in some settings. This was just the first thing that popped into my head and I don't care about jow many people misspell Google, but it is infuriating when they do it as you try to find information on a rare error message or something.

[skinkestek]

Hi again leoh. Did you try searching for "goolge" like I suggested yesterday?

If so can you confirm my results?

If not, can I have your cookies (just joking).

If you happen to work at Google, can you tell them that this is another way that they drive even previously ardent fans to hope that Google will sooner or later be split up so they can start focusing on search again instead of plotting for world domination.

[qyi]

Give me access to a machine that isn't blocked from Google, and I will.