I used this quite frequently but since Google “”““improved””“” it last year (there was a popular HN post complaining about this) it doesn’t work anymore. Search for a domain name with quotation marks for example just recombines the contents of the domain and returns a bunch of unrelated content completely cluttering what I am looking for. Until last year it used to return no search results if there weren’t any exact matches, which is the whole point.
Does someone have a work around for this phenomenal Google decision?
There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.
I know Reddit, Twitter, Meta, and a bunch of tech companies are having a rough time right now, but why is Google throwing their hat in the ring? Is making their services crappier becoming trendy? Or was it simply that AI couldn’t parse the old search flags so they just removed it, hoping that AI would somehow become better in the future?