&gt; I suspect that Google has been trained by a bunch of people who just don&#x27;t know how to search, and that&#x27;s why natural language works and the + operator failed. Have a look at Reddit&#x27;s &quot;Tip of my tongue&quot; subreddit for examples.<p>I get where you are coming from, but I&#x27;m 99% sure it&#x27;s not just this. I&#x27;ve searched for extremely vague things such as &quot;that movie where there&#x27;s one guy that shouts <i>funny catchphrase</i> all the time&quot; and was amazed when the first result was the Wikipedia entry for the specific movie I was looking for, even though the Wikipedia entry didn&#x27;t mention the specific trait being searched. Google really does do natural language processing on the queries.