This is extremely annoying, especially when you're in a country with high level of English proficiency and a small population. In that scenario, you're not going to have a lot of local language results. Something like Wikipedia, which has decent quality in English, will tend to look like it was edited by high school students. Yet Google will force-redirect you to the local Wikipedia language over the vastly superior English article, even when searching for something in English.
Modern search engines are just so stupid trying to outsmart us. When was the last time running a literal search between double quotes produced any significant results for you? Nowadays even with double quotes, they more or less all return what they think i meant depending on a plethora of criteria and not what i asked for.
Thanks for marginalia search engine, it seems to be gaining in content and starts to be more and more useful lately! Though to be fair more *transparent* special-casing like you do for Wikipedia would be welcome in my humble view (eg. for technical documentation pointing to the reference site, etc).
The usual excuse is that they are optimizing for results that produce clicks on paid search, rather than optimizing for your satisfaction with the search results.
