And then I would paste that in at the end of each query.
Today they've removed that kind of spam so I don't need that.
Today my problem is that they fuzz my queries to include useless results. Not a spam problem rather than a problem of Google not realizing that I only want relevant results.
But of course, removing results that doesn't contain what I search for is easy and not an interesting machine learning problem so why should anyone care to fix that?
(That said: lately things have improved, so maybe I should just shut up and hope nobody at Google notices and puts back the insane fuzzing.)
If you want to avoid the term expansion, just put double quotes around the words you want to hard require.
As for including "useless" results - that's never a goal, the goal is always to rank the results in the best possible way. What's the best possible way varies depending on the user, and relatively large term expansion is useful for certain users in certain cases.
> If you want to avoid the term expansion, just put double quotes around the words you want to hard require.
Lucky you if that consequently works for you. It is getting better lately, but from 2009 to 2019 they've more or less consequently ignored both dpuble quotes and their own verbatim option.
BTW: the way you write make it sound like you work in search. Is that correct?
-site:highrankingspamsite1.com -site:highrankingspamsite2.com etc
And then I would paste that in at the end of each query.
Today they've removed that kind of spam so I don't need that.
Today my problem is that they fuzz my queries to include useless results. Not a spam problem rather than a problem of Google not realizing that I only want relevant results.
But of course, removing results that doesn't contain what I search for is easy and not an interesting machine learning problem so why should anyone care to fix that?
(That said: lately things have improved, so maybe I should just shut up and hope nobody at Google notices and puts back the insane fuzzing.)