It's probably just a personal quirk, but few things are as vicerally upsetting as looking for something that you know exists-- and having a machine "suggest" something more popular because... well most of the time that's what a person would be looking for.

It feels like a little voice whispering "what are you some kind of weirdo?"

(I'm probably making too much of this. But I'm fixated now.)

@futurebird It's extra aggravating when you spieled it correctly and it changes your suggestion to a different term just to point you at something unrelated but popular.
Google search is getting more and more useless by the day.
@futurebird This.
The worst thing about search engines these days is how predictable they are!

@futurebird

1,000,000% viscerally agree!

I want what I specifically asked for, not what you “assumed” would satifice.

@futurebird I don't think you're making too much of it. It drives me nuts having my searches dumbed down (basically) and having to come up with wordings that will force the result I need.
@futurebird I had a similar feeling yesterday. I got the UMich Consumer Confidence study and was filling it out. It repeatedly asks things with no option for "I don't know." If you, for instance, say that you think prices will fall in the coming year, it says "Oh, you think prices will fall in the coming year? By how much, exactly? and makes you specify the whole number and how many tenths. It's like it's mocking you for having expressed an unpopular opinion.
@futurebird And it’s because the more popular thing is usually something you can buy which google profits from(in those ads or placements). People study how to get just the right key word on their sites to lap up all searches!