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Try opening the “Search tools” menu in the results page and selecting “Verbatim”... I think that makes “literal” searches work, because otherwise Google uses sy
by elondaits 6y ago
Try opening the “Search tools” menu in the results page and selecting “Verbatim”... I think that makes “literal” searches work, because otherwise Google uses synonyms and language analysis to attempt to match your search to results.
- tyingq 6y agoThe query parameter google adds for verbatim matches is tbs=li, so you can append that to the url, like https://www.google.com/search?q="somestring"&tbs=li Some other uses of "tbs": https://stenevang.wordpress.com/2013/02/22/google-advanced-power-search-url-request-parameters/ https://stenevang.wordpress.com/2013/02/22/google-advanced-p...
- eitland 6y agoThat too has consistently failed between 2007 and late 2020. Now it just fails inconsistently (i.e. it sometimes works).
- vram22 6y agoGoogle the company, runs on an algorithm of arbitrary complexity.