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I absolutely hate this, and it turns the search useless to me. When searching with "direct quotes" on Google, it has ignored my exact term in quotes and shown m

• basch 4y ago
  It is utter baffling how often I will search a couple terms and the top 5 results will say missing x and make me click to bring back my most important term. Obviously the term that is most limiting my search result volume is a candidate for either causing interference, or BEING the most important term. The frequency with which google chooses to disregard that word instead of focusing on it is just painful. Why theyve chosen to optimize for returning the MOST results is just misguided. I do not need or care for 10k results. Give me 90 that are actually useful.
• rippercushions 4y ago
  This was finally largely fixed last year. https://blog.google/products/search/how-were-improving-search-results-when-you-use-quotes/ https://blog.google/products/search/how-were-improving-searc...
  • basch 4y ago
    That doesnt appear to be related. Your post is about making the preview text more relevant.
• layer8 4y ago
  It helps to turn Verbatim mode on (under Search Tools).