<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rurp</author><text>Google ignoring what I had actually typed and instead showing results to a more popular query that was similar, but distinctly different, is what finally got me to switch over to DuckDuckGo. Now that I&amp;#x27;ve gotten used to DDG I find Google unpleasant to use. The amount of ads and clutter on the page is distracting, and the organic results seemed ever more skewed towards ecommerce results.</text><parent_chain><item><author>BitwiseFool</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve actually moved to other search engines because the quality of the results have gone down dramatically. It seems like google will fixate on one or two keywords in my search (usually the most generic ones) and ignore the rest. In addition, the old google tricks like using quotes for literal values no longer seems to work. It is like google is guessing what I want, rather than trying to find what I have entered as a query.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t know if this is because SEO has poisoned their index, or if I&amp;#x27;m not googling &amp;quot;correctly&amp;quot; anymore.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How much longer will we trust Google’s search results?</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/tech/2020/1/24/21079696/google-serp-design-change-altavisa-ads-trust</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>javiercr</author><text>To get the old behaviour for literal search using quotes enable the &amp;quot;Verbatim mode&amp;quot; (Tools &amp;gt; All results &amp;gt; Verbatim)&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a must if you&amp;#x27;re a developer searching for some obscure error message, yet still most people don&amp;#x27;t know about it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>BitwiseFool</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve actually moved to other search engines because the quality of the results have gone down dramatically. It seems like google will fixate on one or two keywords in my search (usually the most generic ones) and ignore the rest. In addition, the old google tricks like using quotes for literal values no longer seems to work. It is like google is guessing what I want, rather than trying to find what I have entered as a query.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t know if this is because SEO has poisoned their index, or if I&amp;#x27;m not googling &amp;quot;correctly&amp;quot; anymore.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How much longer will we trust Google’s search results?</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/tech/2020/1/24/21079696/google-serp-design-change-altavisa-ads-trust</url></story>