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The biggest reason I immediately switched to Google when I first tried it was Google only matched documents containing exactly the words I searched for, nothing
by tlrobinson 14y ago
The biggest reason I immediately switched to Google when I first tried it was Google only matched documents containing exactly the words I searched for, nothing more.
It's fine (and good) if search engines add more intelligence like this, but I'll always need a way to search for exact phrases. The default behavior of Google is much "fuzzier" than it was 5 years ago, so I'm surprised they don't already do something like this (or do they?)
- rblackwater 14y agoThat's a good point. It's sometimes difficult trying to search for programming topics now. "Did you mean UIView?" No, Google, I really did mean NSView.
- haberman 14y ago"Did you mean" is just a suggestion. It doesn't change your search results AFAIK.
- wahnfrieden 14y agoIf it's confident enough, it does.
- haberman 14y agoYes but that's a different message ("Showing results for..."), and there's a link to force a search for the original term. For me it's right at least 50% of the time that it does this (probably much more, but I can confidently say >50%), so it's a net win for me personally.
- rblackwater 14y agoYou are right, I remembered wrong for that one. It usually does "Showing results for ... UIView click here to see results for ... NSView". Sometimes I encounter something that gets changed without the option to search for what I typed and I have to quote it.
- trb 14y agoYou can wrap your search terms in " (double quotes), but they also offer a verbatim search options, which deactivates most fuzziness.
- balac 14y agoGoogle has "verbatum" search. It is a little hidden under the "more search tools" link in the sidebar, but it does provide a non-fuzzy search.
- __alexs 14y agohttps://sites.google.com/site/gwebsearcheducation/advanced-operators https://sites.google.com/site/gwebsearcheducation/advanced-o... You are looking for intext: