Why is literally every search engine variously but fundamentally fucking Broken, now? Yes even whatever one you were about to suggest.

And no it's not Just SEO/Marketing/Ad-Targeted shit on the search side, because even DDG is having these problems, and they're quite fucking scrupulous about these things.

Also, that still wouldn't explain the behaviour I'm talking about, even when accounting for SEO embedding on the site side. Again: not returning results that absolutely should come up in the search parameters, but returning those results with different, possibly less-well-related parameters.

@Wolven My personal favorite has been when I search for two words, and I only get results with one of the words. It's bad enough that any time I open a page, I make sure to search in the page for each of the search terms I was originally looking for to verify that it's even close to a reasonable result.
@worr yep, every time now