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"Quote" the search term. That's the replacement for +.

• espeed 13y ago
  Yes, but it's a PITA.
• fsckin 13y ago
  Yep. That adds more keystrokes to optimize a query that didn't give the best results the first time. It'd be nice if there were an option to revert the behavior.
• deleted 13y ago
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• dmpk2k 13y ago
  I'm not sure if my memory is playing tricks on my, but I've found quotes unreliable. Google will spit out "close" suggestions that have nothing to do with what I requested, despite using quotes. Google also happily returns results which do not fulfill even the "close" suggestions: e.g. I ask for three words, Google searches for those three words, and returns a bunch of pages that contain only two or one of those words. Google, that's not what I asked for. Google's attempts to tweak my queries and also return results that don't fulfill all requirements makes it much less useful to me, because they usually backfire. I don't want my queries tweaked -- I want exactly what I asked for, and only what I asked for. If I made a mistake, I can figure it out and fix it myself.
  • m_ram 13y ago
    > I'm not sure if my memory is playing tricks on my, but I've found quotes unreliable. Google will spit out "close" suggestions that have nothing to do with what I requested, despite using quotes. I noticed the same a few months ago. If you want an exact match you have to click on "Search tools" >> "All results" >> "Verbatim".
  • thisisnotatest 13y ago
    For what it's worth, I assure you that putting a "query" "term" in "quotes" is identical to the retired +plus +sign +operator. I would be very curious, if you set up Verbatim search as your default search engine in your browser, how often you have to "fix" it, and if you ever find it easier to see what Google makes of your non-verbatim query. I'd especially be interested in how often the thing you're searching for doesn't really exist on the web, and so Google is replacing "no results" with "off-topic results."
• conradfr 13y ago
  "Quote" does not work these days, it still presents results you with alternatives to the "Quote".
  • IanCal 13y ago
    You need to use "verbatim" mode. It's under "Search tools" and then in the dropdown starting with "All results".
    • anonymoushn 13y ago
      This applies to the whole query, so there's not really any analogue to "foo bar +baz".
    • conradfr 13y ago
      Oh so that's what this "verbatim" thing is, I'll look into it thanks.
    • deleted 13y ago
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  • thisisnotatest 13y ago
    I think the only time that Google changes a word in quotes is if the spelling algorithm is very confident. For example, if you searched for [barack obama "autobiolgraphy"], you are going to get results for "autobiography" with the option to really search for "autobiolgraphy". Other than that, I'm pretty sure that a word in "quotes" must appear in the result to be retrieved, without any alternatives. If you have a counter-example, I would love to see it! (I work on that code.)
• raldi 13y ago
  No, the replacement is Search Tools --> Verbatim