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If you quote a word or phrase, it will be treated as required, just like "+" used to work with AltaVista. You can also click on the "Search tools" button and s
by lobster_johnson 11y ago
If you quote a word or phrase, it will be treated as required, just like "+" used to work with AltaVista.
You can also click on the "Search tools" button and select "Verbatim" from the "All results" dropdown. This causes the search to only perform exact matches: https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/142143?hl=en https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/142143?hl=en.
And yes, I also spend a lot of time fighting Google's inferral rules. I remember doing a search for Biber at one point, and it asked if I meant Bieber instead.
- flyinghamster 11y agoNot quite: I've sometimes put "CentOS 7" in quotes when looking for something CentOS 7-specific, only to have Google return pages and pages of results for older versions of CentOS. These days it's almost a crapshoot whether or not I'll get relevant results from Google.
- lobster_johnson 11y agoDid you try the verbatim mode?
- Gracana 11y agoAs lobster_johnson says, verbatim mode is key. I wish it was the default - I'm always using specific phrases the google re-interprets into something more popular. A big pet peeve given my line of work: I know autocad is more popular, but please google, I really do want results about draftsight!