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Quotes aren't what they once were. They don't guarantee that the term you quoted will be in the results.
by heretogetout 4y ago
Quotes aren't what they once were. They don't guarantee that the term you quoted will be in the results.
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- charcircuit 4y ago>They don't guarantee that the term you quoted will be in the results. They do guarantee it. Sometimes Google is buggy and messes up in determining what's page is actually visible on the page compared to just being somewhere in the HTML.
- not2b 4y agoThe page Google saw might not be the one you get if you click the link they give you. This kind of thing is in the SEO bag of tricks.
- heretogetout 4y agoThat's a loose definition of guarantee, I think. They know what's on the page because they include a brief summary in the results, but even there quoted terms don't always appear. Here's an example someone posted a few months back where google decided the user didn't really want what they said they wanted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30132344 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30132344
- photochemsyn 4y agoI find using the 'verbatim' option under tools is usually necessary to get the exact phrase. However if I also try to use an exact date range (uploaded in past five years, say), then the verbatim option is automatically disabled. Can't do both at the same time, it's really annoying.