Any examples? I find it hard to believe it is "nearly useless for most searched topics". It is easy to check, go to your search history and look at your last 10-20 queries and count how many them useless.
Google returned exactly ZERO results about TPUG. All of the results were about dogs.
That's either very quick turnaround to fix, or a deeper mystery!
Two people sitting at machines next to each other can perform the same search and get different results. It's what Google's spent billions of dollars on.