> a google search reveils no alternative meaning
You could file this under "yet another deterioration of google effectiveness by personalisation of search results", except it's not even true? I put "attitude" in and it gave me a dictionary expand-o-box with "3. the orientation of an aircraft or spacecraft, relative to the direction of travel."
I get programming results even for non programming terms. I am pretty confident that's not the case for my mom.
It stands to reason that people's search results could be wholly uninformative if Google thinks the subject matter is unlike what you usually read.
There are also many times when you search an official UK government service, like applying for a driving lisence or filing taxes, and the first page is just full of scams. This has been goung on for years, they should pin the official resources to the top for cases like this.