There’s an ongoing tendency among devs, who seem to believe that users are those irrational things, unable to actually know what they want/need. To the point that they violate one of the basic premises of both programming and human decency: don’t assume, ask.
Couple that with corporate interests, the “modernisation” of round wheels into square ones, and most people using the same search plugins, and here you go.
I want boolean algebra in my search syntax. Everything else feels like a toy
Boolean logic is the bare minimum IMO. Specially “not” - sometimes you know trashy results will feature a specific string, and you want to remove them.
And the system should be able to use the logic for whole expressions, not just individual words.
Verbatim search is the only way to get useful results from Google anymore.
The technical term is called enshittification
