Search, Sex & Google´s Boolean smut
philippines "sugarcane smut"
and Google gave me, in 0.48 seconds, 2,020,000 webpages, thank you very much.
But Google also had this note below the Search box (my italics):
The word "smut" has been filtered from the search because Google SafeSearch is active. And I´m supposed to rejoice?
I´m very sensitive. Of course SafeSearch is active! Don´t tell me that; I know. You see, since many years ago, I have always been setting my Google Search Preferences to English only, Google´s SafeSearch - "Use strict filtering" meaning filter out both explicit text and explicit images, display 100 results per page, and open search results in a new browser window. Google is supposed to follow my instructions to the letter.
Today, in those 2,020,000 webpages, I see separate webpages on "Philippines" and "sugarcane" and not "sugarcane smut" like I want to. What good is a fast 0.48 seconds search for millions of webpages if I can´t use any of them? Like somebody said long ago, the PC does not improve on your making mistakes; it only makes your mistakes happen faster. My search experience today proves the point. I´m unhappier faster.
My mistake? I believe it´s Google´s. My Google smut experience tells me now:
Google is not searching like I tell it to. When I search for "sugarcane smut" I mean "sugarcane smut" and not any other kind of smut; my smut is described as sugarcane, not somebody else´s smut. Why am in on my desktop PC 24/7? Not for smut. Did Google consider that?
For Google to look in separate ways "sugarcane" apart from "smut" means Google is not looking for my exact phrase "sugarcane smut" - which is what those double quotes stand for as I used them - exact phrase within those quotes - that to me indicates that Google´s vocabulary (thesaurus) is limited. Or its search programming is. How would I feel if Google searched separately the words, even if I put the double quotes "I love you" - that would be like splitting hairs.
"Smut" means "obscene" and "speck of dirt" and "plant disease" - but I wasn´t searching for "smut" only or "sugarcane" only - so why expand my search when I´m trying to do the exact opposite: limit it? I don´t want to have anything to do with your sex filth or her ground dirt; I want my sweet disease!
When I say "sugarcane smut" I mean "sugarcane smut" and not AND/OR, not either or both "sugarcane" and "smut" - does this mean that Google has changed the rules of Internet search without telling me? My double quote means I want the exact phrase, so don´t give me any Boolean smart, or smut.