dannysullivan

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by dannysullivan 4y ago
That's not a sign that quote search doesn't work. In fact, the opposite. The pages you get all appear to have that really long quoted phrase. Instead, it's a sign we don't have one particular page with that quote indexed
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by dannysullivan 4y ago
I work for Google Search. Yes, totally agree, it's weird when the count goes up. It's something I hope we can fix. But it's not because we ignored the - symbol. It's because the counts are very fast, rough estimates. And
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by dannysullivan 4y ago
I work for Google search. It does work as described. If you have an example you're comfortable sharing where you feel it doesn't, I'd be happy to have the team look into it.
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by dannysullivan 4y ago
Quotes searches bring back pages we can see have the quoted terms. That's how it is intended to work, and that's how does work. I've looked into many of these cases, we find the quoted terms there. In this example, we don&#x2
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by dannysullivan 4y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by "mapping from pages to index text" but no, we didn't make any change in terms of retrieval. None. Use quotes, we look for pages that have the quoted material and only show those pages. The c
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by dannysullivan 4y ago
The content is rendered on the page. For example, say someone has an email sign-up box. When the page renders, the box appears and it might list all the countries in the world, so that you can pick your country from the list. All those coun
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by dannysullivan 4y ago
If you are quoting terms, we're not going to match what's quoted and not go beyond that. If you have an example of where using quoted terms, you find this happening, please share if you're comfortable. I'll forward to th
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by dannysullivan 4y ago
There's a lot of information on how Google Search Works on our site by that name here: https://www.google.com/search/howsearchworks/ While there's some very short caching of results, to my understanding,
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by dannysullivan 4y ago
+ hasn't been an operator for years with us now. Quotes mean find the exact term indicated, no stemming, nothing -- just an exact match.
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by dannysullivan 4y ago
It still works, if you mean the - symbol.
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by dannysullivan 4y ago
We don't support quoted restriction for local results -- results in a local box -- as the post explains. It also says that's something we're looking at for a further improvement.
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by dannysullivan 4y ago
If you have an example you're comfortable sharing, I'm happy to take a look with the team (I work for Google Search). It's designed to match content as described in the post.
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by dannysullivan 4y ago
If you ever find an example where you think they don't work, please ping me. I've looked into many of these cases, and the material does appear on the page as we've seen it.
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by dannysullivan 4y ago
I work for Google Search and yes, that's something we are considering. No promise it will happen, but we do understand it might help people better understand there's no matches for what they wanted (though we do say that now, when
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by dannysullivan 4y ago
We don't need a checkbox because if you use quotes, we will match only content in the quotes, as our post explains. If there's no content at all that matches, only in that case will we show a message making it clear there's n
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by dannysullivan 4y ago
I work for Google Search. We never changed how we used quotes as a restriction tool. People seem to have had that impression because our snippets changed to not reflect where we were finding the terms. Hopefully our new snippet change will
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by dannysullivan 4y ago
I work for Google Search. We did look a this, and we'll keep looking to see if we can improve, but it turns out to be a very hard lift.
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by dannysullivan 4y ago
If you haven't read our post, I'd encourage doing do. Quotes do work to find the exact terms specified. But control-F won't locate some of the terms we find when fully rendering a doc -- that's why the list explains usin
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by dannysullivan 4y ago
The post explains that we see some punctuation as spaces so that query is a search for nothing, which is why it fails.
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by dannysullivan 4y ago
I work for Google Search. Nothing changed in how they worked over the past two years. I think it's just that our snippets weren't reflecting where we were finding the quoted terms, causing people to think they were ignored. Hopefu
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by dannysullivan 4y ago
Not so easy, the engineers tell me. Again, never say never. I miss + myself, but quotes do work.
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by dannysullivan 4y ago
I work for Google Search. It works exactly the same as + did. We don't ignore the terms that are quoted. That was the point ofvthe change we made, that because the quoted terms weren't sometimes in snippets, it might seem like we
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by dannysullivan 4y ago
I work for Google Search. Quotes replaced the + operator but work exactly the same way. They do precisely search for content with the exact terms specified. They really do. They will not look for translations and so on. If there's no m
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by dannysullivan 4y ago
I work for Google Search. We have looked at this, and while never say never, reverting is hard from what I understand because it means we'd have to ignore the + symbol which turns out to be useful to recognize when it comes to internat
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by dannysullivan 4y ago
I work for Google Search. Yes, we’ve been looking into this.
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by dannysullivan 4y ago
I work for Google Search. Yes, we’re looking into this.
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by dannysullivan 4y ago
No. Again, we'll work to better clarify this page. But there are two things: 1) Remove personal info, which includes things like email address, phone number, physical address. You can ask those be remove; no proof of threat is required
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by dannysullivan 4y ago
Third-party sites that republish public information are not exempt from this. IE: say a government site publishes personal info as public record. Our policy doesn't allow removal of the government pages. But if a third-party republishe
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by dannysullivan 4y ago
The policy doesn't allow for removal of business info but rather personal info. And there is a review process. If someone tried to, I suppose, remove a page for someone's name who ran their own business and submitted the business
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by dannysullivan 4y ago
Our new policy allows you the ability to remove these types of listings for your name, if they are not official government sites.

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