Comment on Has google stopped working for finding anything?

• yamanii@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Didn’t even need the quotations and google knows I’m a weeb, that person is just making a mountain of a mole hill because the newest character with the same name is more popular.

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  • DrQuint@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is because google, surprise surprise, actually knows who you are.

    I have very similar results looking for things like Dota 2 hero names. It knows Bane is the nightmare purple monster, not the masked walking meme batman villain, and I don’t have to specify.

    What google is TRULY garbage at is answering questions.

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• Sheeple@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Unfortunately negative prompts don’t work half of the time on Google. As many in this comment section have noted.

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  • Anon124@lemmynsfw.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Google will nag you and not show them, but if you press the “I really mean what I searched for” thing then it usually works for me. I just wish Google would trust that I know what I typed.

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• funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  exact match was phased out years ago sadly

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  • Anon124@lemmynsfw.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I just tried the search prompt I wrote and it worked flawlessly. Idk what the issue is.

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  • KISSmyOS@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No, it wasn’t. Still works perfectly for me (even to the point that there are zero results if the exact term simply doesn’t exist.)

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