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HackerNews search respects double quotes around your terms as an exact match, as do many other search engines. For example search for "Amerca" with and without
by leros 2mo ago
HackerNews search respects double quotes around your terms as an exact match, as do many other search engines.
For example search for "Amerca" with and without quotes. Without quotes you get content for "America" but with quotes you only get the exact typo match.
- tehwebguy 2mo agoJust confirmed! (Is this new? I could swear it didn't work a few months ago when I was looking for stories about Bright Data before all the news articles about the residential proxies.)
- leros 2mo agoNo idea. When I was looking it up, I did see that advanced searching has to be enabled in Algolia for it to work.
- comment0r 2mo agoThis works since nearly forever.
- pibaker 2mo agoThis has been a standard feature for nearly all non trivial search engines for at least two decades. I remember this being a feature when I first used google over two decades ago.
- bpalmerau 2mo agoIt worked in Alta Vista
- sieabahlpark 2mo ago[dead]