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"yuo can do it" -you

Search engines like Google, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, Brave, etc. used to respect my quotes around phrases, and minuses to exclude terms. I think we’ve gone way too far over the edge of “artificial intelligence” trying to assume what I mean, rather than accepting that I know what I’m typing and I know what I want.

There has been a video on YouTube for 15 to 20 years that I like to share, and it had the word “You” misspelled, so it was very easy to find with:

+"yuo can do it" -you

which would always pull it right up on YouTube. Now all I get is cRAP links!

What is going on? Is there some new way to tell a search engine to stop trying to “be smart” by making bad assumptions of what I mean, and just accept that I say what I mean and mean what I say?

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