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Definitely. So many searches lately will return results that only partially match the search terms. What's even the point of searching if you're just going to show a bunch of unrelated results?
Even exact matches with quotes donβt seem to be as useful these days. Google tries to be helpful by matching on what it thinks I want instead of what I actually want. That plus the ads and all the other junk
Plus, I used to set my new tab page to Google, but God, it's so bad. There's always some stupid image for some stupid anniversary like Mary F. Dinklehorn becoming the first trans-gay-librarian in Antarctica or something (not that I'm against any of that) I just want to get some work done and not be distracted by Google desperately clinging to power.
But Drive is nice, I like that.
But theyre an icon in the librarian community!