I am preaching this for months now. It's getting so bad that I again started thinking about writing my own search (crawling my top 20 sites and a search depth of 2 for linked sites + wikipedia + IMDb + Wiktionary).
Google "correcting" or flatout ignoring search parameter is infuriating to say the least and I'm finding myself more and more relying on my bookmarks and synched history for visiting sites I knew I visited.
> crawling my top 20 sites and a search depth of 2 for linked sites + wikipedia + IMDb + Wiktionary
I have been thinking something along similar lines. One thing I wanted to add is independent (static site)bloggers and content creators, forums like HN and reddit, stackoverflow etc. But I have no idea how to find these bloggers. Maybe whitelisting the sites to be indexed is the solution?
Everytime I a stackoverflow answer links to some really amazing blog post, it saddens me that google wouldn't have shown me that result even if I searched the exact same topic of the blog post.
Google "correcting" or flatout ignoring search parameter is infuriating to say the least and I'm finding myself more and more relying on my bookmarks and synched history for visiting sites I knew I visited.