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		cma on April 28, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google made me ruin a perfectly good website (2023... Google used to work closer to verbatim mode but would get common synonyms to give you comprehensive results. Now it stretches synonyms and alternate spellings to the point of uselessness.

account42 on April 29, 2024 [–]

They also changed "did you mean Y" into "showing results for Y". So annoying.

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