[felix318]

I find it interesting that people write Google queries in correct, often polite English as if there is something intelligent on the other side. When I try this query: "where mango grow washington" I seem to get decent results, but the human-sounding query does return garbage.

Perhaps the problem with Google is that it's trying too hard to convince people that it's smarter than it really is. I treat it as a stupid, mindless computer and it works fine most of the time.

[worrycue]

Yupe, keywords is still how I search most of the time unless I’m literally looking for a question (or something close to it) hoping to hit a Stack Overflow and clones / Reddit post asking that question.

You can tell who all the old people are that were using search engines since back in the day. LOL

All I ever expect from a search engine is it find pages with the words in my query (and maybe exclude certain words as specified), anything else is just gravy.

[zoomablemind]

Ha, I clearly remember when natural language queries were encouraged for searching. I understood that it was the path to Assistant.

Still, I agree that keyword search remains practical.