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> I think I need searches to be more literal, and less semantic.  Anyone 
> know of a
> way to make google more literalistic, or have a better search engine?

First, use double quotes when you don't want Google to be too smart. 
"buzzing" ps/3 returns what you want.

In any case, think about specific keywords closely associated to your topic 
that are likely to be in your target pages and add them to your search. When 
I was giving lectures about internet search in the early 2000s I was always 
giving the following example: at that time, looking for swine feeding (I'm a 
specialist in farm animal nutrition) always returned pages with Matthew 8:30 
("Now there was a herd of many swine feeding at a distance from them") 
instead of technical documentation about pig farming. The trick: add 
"protein" to the search because this word is extremely likely to be used in 
the target documents and completely absent from the Bible. The example no 
longer works now but the trick never fails.

Note that Google semantic search seems pretty much in its infancy and more a 
buzzword than anything else: right now, the bulk of the search seems to be 
done after lemmatisation of the input (i.e. it goes back to the canonical 
form of the words) with some phonetic algorithm to find probable homophones.

G.

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