[ta988]

I have been using Kagi for a while now. Something I have noticed recently is that it ignores a lot more of the words in my search queries, I felt the same thing with google over time, it shows results it thinks I want not the things I want.

[mbwgh]

+"Searching" +"Like" +"This" works for me.

Whenever I try this with Google, I can't seem to get it to work though. According to [0], it is not an official search operator anymore.

0 - https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433?hl=en

[mbirth]

Just using quotes usually was enough to make these words/phrases “required”. However, I believe there was a change (last year?) where they now sprinkle in other “relevant” results.

[ta988]

My problem is that I didn't need to do that and now I have to do it more and more. That also mean I need to do two searches minimum instead of one.

[sedatk]

Yeah they’d thrown that baby out with the bathwater because Google+ had wanted to use it.

[UweSchmidt]

"Throwing the baby out with the bathwater" means trying too hard to do something good but accidently overdoing it!?

Just to make sure we're not accidentally giving Google a break, Google+ ended in 2019, if they cared for search at all they would have brought back this feature.

[sedatk]

Yeah I used the wrong phrase definitely. I was thinking of screwing it up. :)

[chipsrafferty]

Yep, either it's gotten worse or they lied about not tracking your history, as it has gotten worse over time and I have found myself adding !g much more lately.

[cornedor]

Have you tried reporting those queries? I've seen issues like this being mentioned in the changelog with certain keywords.