[baxuz]

Google's search is amazingly stupid as of late.

For the query "monkeypox gym" I'm getting COVID-19 results.

For the query "social network without kids" I'm getting results for social networks aimed at kids.

For the query "cakes without strawberries" I'm getting... This: https://imgur.com/a/Os1kkcP

[RugnirViking]

while those are pretty ridiculous examples that google should definately handle better, the cake one can be effectively done as

"cakes -strawberries"

[baxuz]

Kinda. This was an example I made up on the fly, but sometimes you don't just want to exclude a term from the search, but you want to see it explicitly semantically excluded in the document.

Eg, "js without transpilation" gives quality results, but often times, especially when it's dealing with more popular search queries, it just kinda focuses on the keywords without any context.

For the search "social media without kids" I was actually looking for some articles that would focus on how the content changes depending on the age group. Or articles about social media focused on "adult things" like HN.

What I got was https://imgur.com/a/0tt8g4r

And I won't even get started on the blog spam content aggregate sites which seem to be over half of the results.

Google seriously needs to find a way out of this mess.

[henriquecm8]

You are right, but even if it's simple, it's not something the average user will know.