> Google is bad at doing literal, verbatim string searches these days and all I want sometimes is like Google 2005ish era search, just PageRank based and no modern machine learning, etc
You can get most of the way to this with the verbatim option, but I think they make it difficult to make the default.
> By using the Verbatim tool Google will not make the following changes:
• Personalizing your search using websites you have visited before;
• Including synonyms of your search terms;
• Automatic spelling corrections;
• Searching for words with the same stem e.g. “Shopping” when searched for “shop”;
• Finding results that match similar terms to those in your query.
You can get most of the way to this with the verbatim option, but I think they make it difficult to make the default.
> By using the Verbatim tool Google will not make the following changes: • Personalizing your search using websites you have visited before; • Including synonyms of your search terms; • Automatic spelling corrections; • Searching for words with the same stem e.g. “Shopping” when searched for “shop”; • Finding results that match similar terms to those in your query.