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Searching using “Verbatim” can be helpful. What’s particularly infuriating is when searching with verbatim still ignores keywords.
by nostromo 9y ago
Searching using “Verbatim” can be helpful.
What’s particularly infuriating is when searching with verbatim still ignores keywords.
- colordrops 9y agoI still remember the day that stopped working. I decided that was the day Google died.
- Baeocystin 9y agoIs that when the + command was overridden in search to refer to G+ instead of 'this is a mandatory search item'? I am still shocked they ever thought that was a good idea, or that surrounding quotes was an acceptable replacement.
- cma 9y agoNo, when that was changed you could at that time just quote a single word to get the old +word behavior.
- therein 9y agoYears ago when I interviewed for a Software Engineer position at Google, the person I was matched to eat lunch with between the interviews was from the Search team. I asked him these exact questions. He said, the last time he checked, quoting a single word to mark it mandatory worked for him and that he definitely would know if it didn't. I didn't insist much at the time but I knew he didn't know what he was talking about, and it made me lose hope that this feature would ever come back working like it used to.
- Chriky 9y agoAre you saying the quote-a-single-word thing doesn't work for you?
- timcederman 9y agoDoesn't work consistently for me.
- Baeocystin 9y agoIt has not been a guarantee for several years, now. At best it seems to be a slightly firmer suggestion.
- Chriky 9y agoDo you have some example searches? I believe you, just never seen it myself. Perhaps I switched some obscure setting on years ago.
- Baeocystin 9y agoNone that are guarantees, unfortunately. It's maddeningly inconsistent from day to day. But it isn't that rare, either. I only perform 10~20 searches using the quote feature a day, and I hit a case where it's ignored several times a week.
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- eitland 9y agoI've reported that at least once. After that it started working again for me within a couple of days and has been more or less working as expected (hmmm. That's what I thought at least) until recently. Frustratingly they refuse to send any feedback so I just had to try again, Yes, and I've also gotten the capchas.
- aschampion 9y agoWhat more infuriating is it using synonyms of "verbatim" that actually don't mean the same thing as verbatim in a particular technical context but match an avalanche of noise. I've yet to find a way to turn on synonym matching.