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It is weird to observe younger generations using search engines with how they treat them as some sort of fully natural language processing butlers.
Where you or I might formulate a query as: "films famous within Italy" or simply "famous Italian films"
Gen alpha will generally conduct that same search as: "What are the movies that are most famous in Italy?"
Does it give a different result? I think it doesn't matter. In that case it might be more natural to speak in full sentences for those who never had the need to be specific and concise to a search engine. Because there used to be a need to be specific and concise to have the search engine give you a good result. Now it's so heavily optimised and commercialised, it doesn't really matter what you input.
I think it used to, the way I search as a netizen for 20 years is definitely more of a "keyword" style like the original commenter mentioned, but that comes down to how I became "trained" to search as a lot of the unnecessary words used to make the results less accurate in my experience. I think search engines have gotten better at figuring out what the root of the request is, while also serving up more crap in general due to SEO gaming.