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by kevin_thibedeau 1777 days ago
You are the product. Their goal is to generate revenue with ads and links to their paying customers on the results page. Giving you precise results works against this objective.
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no you are an edge case the rest of the world ie non tech users prefer the way google understands the queries and answers them.
The word "prefers" implies that the choice was made after evaluating other options.

The word you should use is "accepts".

The rest of the world clicks on more ads this way. I believe that's their most important metric.