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Yeah, I also feel the "" to force Google to find an exact match is simply ignored in most requests since a few months.
by hartator 11y ago
Yeah, I also feel the "" to force Google to find an exact match is simply ignored in most requests since a few months.
- moultano 11y agoDo you remember any examples I could debug? You can check your search history here: https://history.google.com/history/ https://history.google.com/history/ if you have it turned on.
- hartator 11y agoI don't appear to have search history enable, but I can shoot you an email as soon as I stumble upon another one.
- rishubhav 11y agoOne of the most annoying for code searches is that the engine seems to ignore punctuation, even in quotations. For example, searching for "the quick brown fox; jumped over the lazy dog" returns hits for the version without the semicolon
- jstimpfle 11y agoI think that "A*" (the algorithm) has started to work only since recently, even without quotation.
- kentonv 11y ago"" always works for me, but the annoying part is how often I have to use it these days, because Google so often second-guesses my queries. I suppose for the average person this "fuzzy searching" is an improvement, but I wish I had the ability to flip a switch somewhere that says: "Please only use exactly the words I gave you, always."