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You know you can use quotes to get verbatim per phrase, right..?

gnicholas 8y ago
This doesn’t actually work. There is a drop down option under search tools that’s called something like “verbatim search”. I only discovered it recently so I haven’t had the opportunity to test it yet, but presumably it works.
rangibaby 8y ago
Google doesn’t always respect quotes
- dec0dedab0de 8y ago
  I dont know too much about search engines, but I think that's a side effect of how they normalize their ngrams
nottorp 8y ago
Why would I have to do that? Not to mention that no, I don't think quotes are respected by google any more.
- fjarlq 8y ago
  Quotes are indeed still respected by Google: https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433 https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433 For example, this search without quotes doesn't mention Dennis Ritchie's NYTimes obituary on the first page of results: https://www.google.com/search?q=became+more+interested+in+computing+than+math https://www.google.com/search?q=became+more+interested+in+co... Add quotes and the obituary becomes the first result: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22became+more+interested+in+computing+than+math%22 https://www.google.com/search?q=%22became+more+interested+in...
  - DanBC 8y ago
    That's not what people mean when they say "not respected by Google". They're not saying quotes never work, they're saying sometimes you use quotes and google returns a page that doesn't include the quoted word.
- kingosticks 8y ago
  I always use quotes when posting error messages into Google as I always get better results that way. Why does their tool work this way? I personally don't care, I'm just trying to use their black box of magic as best I can to get things done.
- bcaa7f3a8bbc 8y ago
  If you are searching a commandline argument, such as "gcc -g", you are probably not going to find ANYTHING useful at all. Why? Because the minus sign (-) means exclusion! Same thing applies for lots of other symbols that may appear in the output of a computer program. Using quotes largely solve the problem.
realusername 8y ago
This has been going downhill as well, it works maybe half of the time now.

This doesn’t actually work. There is a drop down option under search tools that’s called something like “verbatim search”. I only discovered it recently so I haven’t had the opportunity to test it yet, but presumably it works.

rangibaby 8y ago

Google doesn’t always respect quotes

dec0dedab0de 8y ago
I dont know too much about search engines, but I think that's a side effect of how they normalize their ngrams

nottorp 8y ago

Why would I have to do that? Not to mention that no, I don't think quotes are respected by google any more.

fjarlq 8y ago
Quotes are indeed still respected by Google: https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433 https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433 For example, this search without quotes doesn't mention Dennis Ritchie's NYTimes obituary on the first page of results: https://www.google.com/search?q=became+more+interested+in+computing+than+math https://www.google.com/search?q=became+more+interested+in+co... Add quotes and the obituary becomes the first result: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22became+more+interested+in+computing+than+math%22 https://www.google.com/search?q=%22became+more+interested+in...
- DanBC 8y ago
  That's not what people mean when they say "not respected by Google". They're not saying quotes never work, they're saying sometimes you use quotes and google returns a page that doesn't include the quoted word.
kingosticks 8y ago
I always use quotes when posting error messages into Google as I always get better results that way. Why does their tool work this way? I personally don't care, I'm just trying to use their black box of magic as best I can to get things done.
bcaa7f3a8bbc 8y ago
If you are searching a commandline argument, such as "gcc -g", you are probably not going to find ANYTHING useful at all. Why? Because the minus sign (-) means exclusion! Same thing applies for lots of other symbols that may appear in the output of a computer program. Using quotes largely solve the problem.

realusername 8y ago

This has been going downhill as well, it works maybe half of the time now.