This is good advice. I used to be very good at formatting queries in search-engine-ese, but that stopped working well. I finally tried switching to asking questions in normal language, and my results started getting good again. It seems that AI has reached a point where natural language is better than trying to talk like a computer.

A big part of the problem is that it returns results from years ago, even when I specify that I want only recent results. I tried a few different variations and the results were still bad.