If you know the below mentioned, then just ignore. Otherwise give it a try.
There is one thing, that many people either forgot, or never knew: how to create a search query. Nowadays most people put in a human question: "how to bake bread", "how to use a red toilet seat", "what happens to today around the corner".
However even to this day, search engines gives better results if instead this, you try to imagine the results, and search for text that you think appears on the correct result: "bread recipe", "toilet seat user manual", "concert Tuvalu 2024 november"
This. Search engines are an index, not an oracle. Even though google and the others have tried to mystified it by adding those answer boxes and doing a bunch of natural language processing. Another trick is to use the `insite:` keyword. Works wonder for searching docs.
I no longer find this useful because I tend to get the same results no matter how I format my query. And these aren't even good results. Most often I get results for the stuff that is similar but at the same time completely unrelated to what I am actually searching for.
An example from yesterday: I wanted to search for curtains that would be resistant to cat scratches. No matter what I'd search for I would get the same set of links including the following:
* shops that sell textiles that are cat resistant but aren't drapes
* various surface-level guides that talk about this subject but no mention of any specific products (SEO spam)
* ways that are """helpful""" but ultimately harmful, such as spraying smells that cats doesn't like
Not a single mention of anything actually useful or related to what I actually searched for. I am either the first person who asked about this topic ever or there's something wrong with the search.
Well, yeah. I didn't say that it will improve search results if you are already doing it like that. I do agree that google gives garbage since like 2020, but you know... with natural language it gives steaming crap. With real search queries it gives only crap.
There is one thing, that many people either forgot, or never knew: how to create a search query. Nowadays most people put in a human question: "how to bake bread", "how to use a red toilet seat", "what happens to today around the corner".
However even to this day, search engines gives better results if instead this, you try to imagine the results, and search for text that you think appears on the correct result: "bread recipe", "toilet seat user manual", "concert Tuvalu 2024 november"