Tell HN: Google don’t work anymore for exact matches
by bratao on Hacker News.
It’s been a while since I have felt that Google’s results have deteriorated. It takes a lot of tricks to find what I am looking for. Today an interesting case occurred that frustrated me a lot and is worth telling HN. First, I was looking for a song and searched for: “here were the dreams are born” (I know I mistyped). One of the first results I found was this interesting story (Google results https://ift.tt/bfp35v6HN https://ift.tt/9vEVcToW4 I took the following sentence from this story and used it in the readme of an internal project: “David, we have been expecting you – this is what you have been searching for – this place, David, is where dreams are born” Some people wanted to know where this quote came from and could not find it on Google. I also tested and cannot enter any combination of parameters into Google to find this page. I tried quotation marks, literal search and no hyphen. Nothing, it is impossible to find it. Does anyone know what is going on here? Can someone do a magic call and find this page on Google? Has Google’s AI/BERT Enhanced Search reached a point where indexed pages can not be found? All results were tested with a Brazilian connection and replicated in a Private Session on an US VPN.