Here's a use case you may or may not be interested in. Security Research. As a security analyst, when I'm trying to figure out what a malicious script / execut

Here's a use case you may or may not be interested in. Security Research. As a security analyst, when I'm trying to figure out what a malicious script / executable does, it often involves searching for weird strings I find in files that seem like they would be pretty unique. Or even specific sets of strings, even if it isn't very easy. Google used to be awesome for this. Now it is still the best that I'm aware of, but it has gotten gradually worse over the years. So basically the best tool for a job is one I would describe as infuriatingly bad. I think the problem is that it does too much to try to protect a person from malicious stuff on the web. It also does too much to guess what you might actually want instead of giving you what you asked for. Probably the biggest single thing that Google has done to screw it up is that it no longer respects quotes. Maybe there's a workaround but I haven't figured it out. 10-15 years ago if I wrapped something in quotes Google would give me exactly what I wanted. Now its very finicky and 70% of the time it gives me what it thinks I want. These guesses are almost always wrong. That being said, there is also a usefulness to being able to search for a code snippet or another string and get things that are very similar, even when they aren't an exact match. I think having multiple modes would be useful. I think there might be some overlap between what I described above being useful for security researchers and what might be useful for programmers.