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> Yeah I know to put the words I want in quotes That also doesn't work reliably anymore. Somewhere along the line Google changed it from "exact words" to "exac
by input_sh 6y ago
> Yeah I know to put the words I want in quotes
That also doesn't work reliably anymore. Somewhere along the line Google changed it from "exact words" to "exact words and synonyms", with its definition of a synonym being pretty dumb.
Search for something obscure to do with "nginx" and Google shows you results for apache2, even bolding apache2 to indicate a match.
Using DDG's !bangs is far superior.
- twobitshifter 6y agoBang for what engines? DDG has a similar problem with the usage of “-dogs“. This just means fewer dogs in results, not excluding all results with dogs. If you want more dogs you can actually do “+dogs” which somehow changes the weighting of terms.
- input_sh 6y agoUsing "nginx" in DDG will never return websites that have apache2 (and not a single mention of nginx) as a match, Google will. As for the last sentence, I was using the said example to generalise that it's far better to learn which website is right for the query and add a bang. In this case "<something obscure> nginx !sf", which will return serverfault.com results, which also won't do this stupid thing of equating apache2 and nginx.