Is Google's Search Algorithm Gone Mad?

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I mostly use google search for everything but lately it's behaving very weird. I search for something and it just ignores the keywords (I have tried putting them in "quotes" too) and shows whatever the hell it wants. I don't know if google is censoring or the algorithm has problems as the keywords were neutral (not related to any controversial topics)

Are you facing same issues?
 
Has* Google's Search Algorithm Gone Mad?
Not *is*

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For some terms, Google automatically splits up terms within the quotes and shows up all related posts.
Is that what you meant?
 
Google's search engine is a pretty complicated piece of work, sometimes stuff happens.
 
For some terms, Google automatically splits up terms within the quotes and shows up all related posts.
Is that what you meant?
no. I mean including a whole word in quotes and still it ignores it and shows pages that don't even contain the word
 
no. I mean including a whole word in quotes and still it ignores it and shows pages that don't even contain the word

You need to give more info. Wrapping it with quotes should provide more exact search as you already know. What's the keyword, are you using incognito etc.?

Google works fine for me.
 
Google search works fine for me, too.
Maybe it's the language barrier- unless you're searching for things in your native language. Then again, maybe it's even that, and if you search for things in English (or your countries TLD + native language) it could help improve results.

Example:

Your title -
Search 1: "Is Killing Monsters on Videogamename Good To Profit Off Of?"
Search 2: "Has Killing Monsters on Videogamename Good to Profit Off Of?"
- These would return two different things- "is" would give you information on killing monsters in your video game, maybe a list of all of them which you can kill for profit, while saerch #2 would give you things like "Has anyone done this" or "Has videogamename added good monsters to kill for profit (not certain to give you the info on what monsters ARE good)!
 
That is why I once said Google seem to ignore RELEVANCE now. They are now letting authority sites and parasite pages rank on top; their algorithm assumes what THEY THINK you want and gives you search results THEY THINK you need. It is nonsense now... Worst still, the whole search results can fluctuate madly. No longer are the days when pages rank and stays in that position; it now moves around everyday and can fluctuate 5-10 spots or pages back and forth as if an algorithm update is happening on real time (perhaps part of Google's real-time AI whatever).

Again, just my opinion.
 
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