No I didn’t. Or at least, if I made any mistakes, they weren’t the ones you pointed out.
Oops! When I said “pages”, I meant websites. Only the first three responses lacked the exact keyword. And thanks to the commenter who pointed out the example synonym; I had not noticed the bolding.
Thanks everybody for the tips!
Billions of people search for similar things.
Barack… Obama.
Florence… italy, and the machine.
Ice bucket… challenge.
And not just that simply. It looks for people who have searched for similar things that you have searched for in the past. It also looks at your location, which is why, if you look up a local store, you’ll most often find it first, even if there are multiple stores in other places with the same name.
Google does a whole lot to try and figure out what you mean.
What sucks is when it replaces a word with its antonym. Seems the synonym processor is automatic and not base on human intervention. In fact, I bet it’s the same synonym process that you originally got when you used the ~ operator before a word.
Another possible answer: websites have tags that describe the page to search engines. A page might be tagged as a tutorial, even if the word tutorial does not appear in the visible text.