Well whether you add “site:.edu” or not, Google still does the thing where they just spit out a pile of extra “matches” that <i>don’t</i> contain your search phrase <i>AT ALL</i>. Just thrown into the list, as if they have any business being there (oh wait, they do have business: Google’s business).<p>Frankly, if it’s not reliable as a tool, it has no real value and I can’t believe it has come to this. Imagine if every time you ran `ls` in a shell with a glob pattern, it just decided to sort of “add in” a few other files loosely based on your query (or heck, files that aren’t based on it at all)? Oh, now imagine if `rm` did that.<p>Sadly this happens with lots of search tools now. Why the heck is the default state on a new Mac to funnel what you type to <i>everything</i>, e.g. I searched for “Chrome” and hit Return and the <i>FIRST</i> thing it did was throw me into the <i>App Store</i> and call up some not-even-a-web-browser scam app with Chrome in its name, <i>instead of</i> selecting the Chrome already installed on my computer and opening it? More and more it seems that you have to turn off all kinds of poor defaults to put tools into a useful state, or there is simply no way to get them there at all.