Thing that impresses and annoys me about a search function - when you search for "fish" and results include...

Thing that impresses and annoys me about a search function - when you search for "fish" and results include something about "sable". Sable is a type of fish, so I guess kudos for including anything that might refer to fish and not just the word. Unfortunately, what it pulled up was a recipe for sables, which are cookies. Perhaps if search functions stuck to what was literally requested and didn't try to infer without a better grasp of their guessing?

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  1. The good old “programming language” aspects of the google search box (+word -otherword “literal combo of words” etc) are something I really miss.

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