Rise of Latent Semantic Indexing in Google Search

Google recently killed the tilde search operator (~) and it seems to be a sign that Google search might soon give more priority to Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI). The tilde search operator have been used by only a few SEO consultants, SEO strategist and SEO managers. The tilde search operator returned synonyms of words and this could have really helped search engine optimisation consultants to easily search out semantically related terms and words. As a leading SEO consultant in India, I always took tilde search operator (~) as a boon to determine more relevant keywords of my website's most important keywords. I can't seem to think of a reason as to why Google dropped the tilde search operator other than assigning more importance to latent semantic indexing (LSI) in Google search results. I have previously written a post describing the importance of Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) in search engine optimisation (SEO).

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