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If you want to avoid the term expansion, just put double quotes around the words you want to hard require. As for including "useless" results - that's never a

by eek04_ 6y ago

If you want to avoid the term expansion, just put double quotes around the words you want to hard require. As for including "useless" results - that's never a goal, the goal is always to rank the results in the best possible way. What's the best possible way varies depending on the user, and relatively large term expansion is useful for certain users in certain cases.

skinkestek 6y ago
> If you want to avoid the term expansion, just put double quotes around the words you want to hard require. Lucky you if that consequently works for you. It is getting better lately, but from 2009 to 2019 they've more or less consequently ignored both dpuble quotes and their own verbatim option. BTW: the way you write make it sound like you work in search. Is that correct?
- topkeks 6y ago
  No they haven't. Quotes have always worked like the previous poster described.
- eek04_ 6y ago
  I don't, but I collaborate with people that work in search, and regularly hear detailed presentations about aspects of it.
girvo 6y ago
Which is fine, except even that seems to be ignored sometimes.