Ask HN: Why do search functions everywhere not return what I search for?

It's driving me nuts.

All over the web, search functions don't actually return the word you searched for.

They seem to all do some sort of creative interpretation of what you searched for in the name of "relevance", thereby returning irrelevant results.

And in many cases, there is simply no way to do a literal word search. You'd expect maybe if you put your term in quotes that you would then get back precisely what you search for, but no..... again, the search function comes up with its own creative interpretation somehow.

Ugh why can't search...... search?

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