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Do you have an example of this not working?

• mcbits 8y ago
  "thraed ripper" Maybe not the most compelling example, but I think it's usually with really blatant misspellings that Google will second guess my quoted terms, which can be annoying if I'm actually looking for the misspelled term.
  • pedrosorio 8y ago
    Not very compelling because: - The exact search for that string returns nothing - You can still force it to do that quite easily by clicking "Search instead" right at the top If you search for a term with no occurrences which is very likely to be a misspelling of an existing popular result, what maximizes total usefulness for users? - No results (10% of the cases you are actually searching for something that does not exist) - Here are the results for the term you're likely searching for (90% of the time) + btw click this link right here to get (no) results for the nonsensical search term
    • mcbits 8y ago
      I found a more compelling example: "ophthalmic" "bitx" What surprised me most is that there actually exist pages containing both of those terms! But it's also including results with just one or the other, and at least one page with neither term in it. I'm also getting no "Search instead" or "Did you mean" links.
      • vesinisa 8y ago
        Which of those pages on the result page does not contain either of the phrases? For me, the first result contains both phrases (the other only in page title). The second is from the same site and lacks the "bitx" term, but it likely at some point linked to the first page, hence it's inclusion. The problem with the "barchart.com" results is that it's some sort of a portal of frequently updating headlines, so it's not reasonable to expect the search index to always keep up to date with it.