There's been lots of talk about it over the years: https://www.google.com/search?q=google+%22verbatim%22+site%3Aycombinator.com https://www.google.com/search?q=

There's been lots of talk about it over the years: https://www.google.com/search?q=google+%22verbatim%22+site%3Aycombinator.com https://www.google.com/search?q=google+%22verbatim%22+site%3... I think I also mentioned it a couple of times when the same complaint came up. The problem I think is that "verbatim" is not a word that one thinks of, so nobody searches for that. Plus it's hidden in a generic "Tools" menu. Sometime you get a link to search for the exact phrase at the bottom of results, but that too is subtle.