yea…pretty much.
Arrowroot is a solid word. So is “nonetheless,” by the way. Mix it with an equal amount of water, the arrowroot, that is.
Yes, duh. Just enter simple search terms and Bob’s your uncle.
I googled the other questions verbatim and they were answered quite handily. The egg drop soup question brought up thousands of recipes for egg drop soup, including explanations and instructions for alternative thickeners such as arrowroot. The lathe questions looked to be authoritatively answered, although I could be wrong.
Drop unnecessary words such as “how to” or “what is.” Using constructions like lathe/mill might be counterproductive. One query per search - your second and third examples are asking two questions each, so you’ll get less clear results.
In other words, your wording is shitty. It’s not the Web. It’s you.
In other words, simplify. Like this:
Every link tells you what the ratio is.
I find info availability on the web to be highly erratic. 19th-century people who were slightly prominent in their town but far from famous — there’s a good chance they’ll turn up in local history books or newspapers (often obits). Much more prominent people from the mid-20th century? Often, nothing at all.
Sometimes I search for companies I was involved with in the 1970’s or 1980’s. Almost zero. (Except search-term matching errors.)
What’s very frustrating are searches that take you to dummy places with zero information. For example, searching (for genealogical purpose) a very rare surname may take you to a genealogical website with a page dedicated to that surname … but the page has NO content: it’s a placeholder for info, but none has turned up.
Or, type the name of an obscure village into Google. Lots of hits: "Find hotels in … " or “Find hot girls in …” But clicking for content you see that in fact, if the village has any hotels (or hot girls!) they are unknown to the website maintainer.
Also, don’t be lazy. You do have to dig, and you will sometimes have to refine your searches - including refining them to exclude some results - if your search for fix X problem yields too many banana-related results, search for fix X problem -banana
Fix banana in tailpipe -banana -bananas
No results! My WEB is broken.
I think you broke the whole damned thing.