https://blog.google/products/search/how-were-improving-searc...
IIUC "verbatim mode" is supposed to do something like this. https://search.googleblog.com/2011/11/search-using-your-term...
For example, Google often prioritizes obscure music bands or albums even for generic or well-known terms.
Yes, I already knew that. That's why I'm here.
It might be an attempt to copy customer service 'empathy' but it has the opposite effect: angering me because my time is wasted with this crap, and I have to scroll several screens to find what I need.
The secondary definition (nonsense) works, but I'm talking about the apt metaphor of its primary definition: offal that's technically edible but comes from low-quality parts of the digestive system which are literally filled with feces.
LLM-generated SEO spam should always be called "tripe".
Or some site that "aggregates" Stackoverflow, Quora and whatnot. Pure hell and I wish everything bad possible on this planet to the people who have implemented this kind of scam.
I believe "minimaxed" in this context refers to optimizing profits while trying to keep search results useful to users.
The term comes from game theory where a player tries to maximize their gains while minimizing their losses:
