[jazdw]

Google search is almost useless for anything but the most basic queries now. Anything technical and it ignores half of the search terms like you said.

[bibligabye]

Google Search has been in decline since they came up with Google+ and removed the Plus Operator from Google Search at the same time (and replaced it with quotes that don't do the same thing). About 13-14 years ago.

[doublerabbit]

If you add minus signs to of popular sites you get better results. However you then end up with a search of something like:

   -google -twitter -reddit -amazon -youtube some search

[wahnfrieden]

intext: and quoting solves this…

[unlikelymordant]

I haven't found quoting helps much. I also feel like i shouldnt have to craft search queries with a lot of inurl or other tags or quoting. Kagi just seems to work better. Its worth 10$ a month to me to not have to worry about it, I use search engines a lot.