[HeckFeck]

> they want results specifically relevant to the terms they're searching for even if they mistype their query.

You're not wrong here, and I don't think LLM has made this much better - for a reason in addition to yours.

In my experience pre-LLM there was a good blend of both relevant and unrelated even when a few letters were off, or a word was slightly wrong.

And now more often than not, the LLM they must have parsing the search query guesses my intention wrongly, making the search results ironically less relevant. Pre-LLM In that situation, I'd correct my query to narrow down the results in my next search - as I still do anyway post-LLM.

TL;DR using LLM to 'enhance' search queries hasn't actually improved anything, while also making my day less fun.