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> Having to "tweak your language" just sounds like a cop-out to me.

Totally agree. But even Google is nowhere near perfection here, so we’re left with the same two strategies we all use when searching:

* try over and over * continually tweak queries

It’s especially easy to forget that we often actually search multiple times, because we do it so quickly that it’s an ingrained habit.



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