[skinkestek]

> So for me: either Google is trying really hard, but essentially failing.

If Google really really wanted they could find out why they more often than not include results that doesn't contain my keywords even after I have put doublequotes around them and hunted down and applied their verbatim setting!

After that they could think really hard about how relevant the text:

> and something someone said xyz.

>

>abc is next up and something something

is for someone searching for "xyz.abc"

Or maybe see if they can dig out an old cheat sheet with all the operators they used to support and invite some old Googlers to secretly come in and teach about it but that can wait until they got the basics working again.