[logicprog]

A few suggestions:

- search results seem to be somewhat case sensitive, which is a massive problem for me when for instance searching programming terms

- in general the matching algorithm seems way too strict, only matching against the exact thing you entered, which makes it very difficult to profitably search for things where you don't have exact specific terms in mind, like perhaps computer errors or genres of things. I think a lot of people's problem with how liberally Google interprets your search results is not that it interprets them liberally necessarily, but that it doesn't respect the other options it provides for trying to match things more strictly. As long as you provide something like Google's quote mechanism and actually respect it, I feel like it would be a lot better to match things more liberally by default. Maybe some amount of fuzzy searching, and matching by synonyms. Also you could probably just use a dictionary of synonyms to do that instead of whatever statistical model Google is probably using, in order to ensure more predictable results.

- as someone else somewhere in this thread mentioned, it seems like stuff like a, an, and the, are all matched against and waited equally to other words. This, especially combined with the fact that it only matches words exactly makes the search results feel way too brittle and unforgiving