[bane]

Nope, same shitty results.

I've basically decided that my friend's name is going to be my search engine quality test from now on, the results are so spectacularly terrible.

All I want is something the crawl the web, suppress SEO spam, and let me "search" on things exactly as I've quoted them. Like we used to in 1998.

[zbrozek]

I've found that with Google I have to use verbatim mode to get it to do anything vaguely sensible.

Synonymization is the worst thing to ever happen to search, and it keeps getting more and more aggressive.