That's not what they're saying. They mean that if your search contains that or is somewhat adjacent (despite being more specific), your results will be drowned in it. For example, if you had something like "laptop monitor turn off when bla bla bla", 90% of the results will completely ignore what you've added.

I've got to deal with the same shit whenever I have to deal with complicated programming questions. Half the results will be related to some really basic mistake on the user's side that I haven't done, and I'll need to spend a lot of time trying to find the magical word combination that doesn't trigger those non-related issues and actually show me what I need.

[–] JPJones@startrek.website -3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, and what I was saying is it's always been that way since the first search engines started popping up.

[–] scottywh@lemmy.world -2 points 11 months ago

Stupid searches yield stupid results