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This has been happening for many years now. In fact, Google introduced "verbatim" search back in 2011 for those who wished for search results that more strictl

This has been happening for many years now. In fact, Google introduced "verbatim" search back in 2011 for those who wished for search results that more strictly contained the exact search terms: https://searchenginewatch.com/sew/news/2126346/google-introduces-verbatim-searching https://searchenginewatch.com/sew/news/2126346/google-introd... Verbatim search is still available today. Searches from the URL bar can be made to use verbatim search by default via this search string: https://www.google.com/search?tbs=li:1&q=%s https://www.google.com/search?tbs=li:1&q=%s

JohnFen 8y ago
Verbatim mode is very insufficient. We need actual logical operators to go with it.
MaulingMonkey 8y ago
I just tried this on one of my old favorite games, "Stars!". I used to be able to search for that. But google ditches the !. Even quoted. Even verbatim. "Stars! game" (with or without quotes) helps a little. The right wikipedia page is linked. Mostly it's drowned out in a sea of stuff about the Dallas Stars, NBA all stars, etc. "Stars! game windows" is getting closer and has more results, but it's still cluttered up with results for various windows games, companies (StarDock), etc. that have nothing to do with what I want. The real trick here is to search for Stars AutoHost, since that was one of the hub websites of the game. Doesn't need to be verbatim, quoted, anything. Suddenly, the actual page titles actually have "Stars!" - complete with exclamation mark - in them. This isn't an edge case for me. C++, C#, ".NET", tons of tech thinks punctuation is cool and (ab)uses it. To say nothing of all the various operators these languages have. Bleh.