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That just creates the search with boolean operators for you... which Google then ignores. Attempts to search for an “exact string” are merely a suggestion to Go
by elliekelly 4y ago
That just creates the search with boolean operators for you... which Google then ignores. Attempts to search for an “exact string” are merely a suggestion to Google. They’d rather return 10 pages of definitely not what I wanted (i.e., wrong!) results than only return one or two hits even if those one or two hits are exactly what I’m searching for!
- eganist 4y agoNah, you can still force it. It treats exact-strings as suggestions at first, but you can still power through. e.g https://www.google.com/search?q="search+enqine" https://www.google.com/search?q="search+enqine" click the link that says "Search instead for 'search enqine'"
- tremon 4y agoSo Google understood my search query perfectly fine, but still chose to ignore what I asked for, and then makes me jump through additional hoops to get my initial question answered?
- eganist 4y ago> So Google understood my search query perfectly fine, but still chose to ignore what I asked for, and then makes me jump through additional hoops to get my initial question answered? Google's catering to the common audience, so yes basically. The hoops are for people who know what they're doing, which is annoying but understandable.
- ClumsyPilot 4y agois there any proof that this has improved search for most people? Everyone i kniw says the opposite
- kyleee 4y agoimproving search is not the main goal, rather it's keeping an interface that can still plausibly be described as "search" while allowing for the most ad impressions and clicks
- dekhn 4y agoYes. Many years ago Google search leaders concluded it made more sense to optimize for what most people do: make bad queries. Ignoring quotes produces results that people click on more than respecting quotes (averaged over billions of users). This is also why the number one signal for ranking is user clicks, not something like page rank.