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Written by Michael Meckler on 2025-01-23 at 17:11

There has been much discussion about how poor search results have become, and I just experienced it today. In editing some text from a colleague, I noticed two very similar phrases mentioned in separate paragraphs as though they might refer to different things, but it wasn't entirely clear. So I did a search (on a major engine) of the type 'phrase 1 vs phrase 2', and all that came up were pages about phrase 2.

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Written by Michael Meckler on 2025-01-23 at 17:14

I asked the author, and indeed these are different, and she sent me a link to a page explaining the differences, a page which has, as its title, 'phrase 1 vs phrase 2: what are the differences'.

A properly functioning search engine would have placed this page at the top of the results. But in our current world of AI-influenced search, this page didn't show up.

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