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Did you try http://www.google.com/search?q=samuru ?
https://www.google.com/search?q=samuru+search+engine
Now Google's entire first page is results about the Samuru search engine, starting with a press release by Stremor announcing their new search engine and touting its use of "language heuristics".
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Google engineer here. We run experiments that show ranking improvements before launching changes to how we interpret query words. I would guess that for every time you notice Google "ignoring the word you asked for," there were several times where we got you the right result even though it didn't have the exact words you asked for, and you didn't even notice. We're not perfect but we're always working on improvements…
What it might come down to is whether making one query worse to make others better is actually a good thing. If they were all acceptable to begin with, it might not be. Are you permitted to share the types of metrics that Google uses to determine whether an algorithm change is producing better results? Is bounce rate the primary metric that is used?
I can't discuss our internal metrics, sorry.