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Add "fucking" to your Google searches to neutralize AI summaries

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788 points jsheard | 1 comments | 31 Jan 25 21:20 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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jameslk ◴[31 Jan 25 21:45 UTC] No.42892519[source]▶
If I start fucking adding swear words to all my fucking search queries, how the fuck will the stupid ass search engine know that I did not want it to use that shit as one of my keywords and give me back a whole lot of fucked up shit?
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edflsafoiewq ◴[31 Jan 25 22:33 UTC] No.42893107[source]▶
It's not like it doesn't freely ignore any unquoted word whenever it feels like it.
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bmurphy1976 ◴[31 Jan 25 22:36 UTC] No.42893141[source]▶
The quoted words search barely works these days anyway.
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roskelld ◴[31 Jan 25 22:49 UTC] No.42893264[source]▶
This bugs me so much. It happens constantly. A few days back I searched for a person's name, put it in quotes and I got results with celebrity with somewhat similar name. Zero hits on the person I searched for on the front page. I had to add specifics to the query such as job title to find them.
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mrandish ◴[31 Jan 25 23:19 UTC] No.42893586[source]▶
Amazon Search is now nearly completely useless for any kind of targeted search. Heaven help you if you're looking for a product without a certain attribute most other products like it all have. There is quite literally no way to filter results against one attribute. Even if Amazon has that product, you won't be able to find it.

I eventually just scripted a separate search engine query that's site specific to Amazon. It works but not as well as it could because it doesn't have access to my purchase history or Amazon's hidden granular category taxonomy.

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1. rendaw ◴[01 Feb 25 02:53 UTC] No.42895192{5}[source]▶
I'm not sure if this is just amazon japan or what, but amazon japan will not only show you things that you didn't search for, it will actively rewrite your search query into a query for those things to gaslight you into thinking you typed it in wrong. And if you try to change the text back it replace it again!

On top of all the other insane choices they made, like removing your search category restrictions if it thinks your query was too precise. I'm close to snapping.