Homeopathy works the way religion works. If you believe in it, that is.

Not if you use "OK Google" Voice search.

Slashdot supports Unicode / UTF8 from 0x20 to 0x7F.

Now Uganda needs computers to see what Unicode looks like.

Incidentally, the Wikipedia donation campaign is currently underway.

Google indeed does customize you search phrase to keep and change what He thinks is better for your needs. And indeed, adding double quotes around the words / expressions you want want Him to include does help. And, indeed, this is sometimes utterly annoying.
This being said, however, I'm usually impressed by the quality of the search algorithm, by the quality of the words and expressions synonyms Google injects into the search to give you even more relevant results. Try to use another SE for a couple of days...
And regarding your languages problems, maybe try to sign in, then visit the "Search settings" page...

And everybody in the whole world is part of the conspiracy. Except you.

The proof.

I think /. moderation is a necessary and pretty good method to help the reader focus on the best posts. However, besides mods, who reads the -1 and even 0 rated posts? Typically the posts TS likes to read end up rated <= 0. Hiding information is a kind of censorship - while, again, this is necessary here, for our own reading comfort.

Yes, but you get to be censored not by the EU, but by the /. moderators.

Not used to /. css yet?

This looks like the server rooms of 1970. In 40 years all of this will take the space in a pocket at most.