[user3939382]

I've gotten cynical about these AI features. I've seen that they try to outsmart me by changing my query which 95% of the time just leads to worse results. Bing is even worse than Google in this regard where I quote every word in my query and they still ignore my terms. It drives me nuts. If they want to use AI for ranking great, if the page doesn't contain my quoted terms stop including it!

[petra]

It seems that it's all a result of optimizing search for the average user. For him it might be better, and leaving the power users aside.

I wonder whether this is an inherent conflict in search and information systems , and so we'll see the same results with the newer LLM based tools ?

[user3939382]

I would agree if we were talking about unquoted terms. I’d like a checkbox in my account settings that make my terms act as quoted by default and I add a flag to make the search fuzzy, but at least respect the quotes, you know? Assume quotes are being used by power users and make everything else fuzzy.