Sometimes when I use exact matches like "keyword1" "keyword2" I see results that contain some of the matches but not others. Is there a search engine that only shows results with all the exact matches exactly as they are written?

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        1 year ago

        I don’t write down every query I use. I remember last week or so I was looking for some obscure director whose both first and last name were shared with popular celebrities. Search engines needed a lot of fucking convincing to get what I needed.

        It gets worse if you’re trying to find an exact quote, or a combination of very common words that you know exist in a particular formation. Yea, good luck.

        It may work when it’s really simple and when you are looking for something that would end up in top 10 results anyway. Otherwise it gets aggravating.

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          1 year ago

          I’ve never had that happen when I put a term in quotations. Always works exactly as intended for me.

          I think you’re mistaken.

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            Nah, they’re not mistaken, Google has a bunch of long running experiments, in some of them verbatim only works if you check a box and others verbatim is broken all together.

            The verbatim searching is either crippled or outright broken for a decent percentage of users and has been for a while now.

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            1 year ago

            This is why I hesitated to reply to you in the first place. Sure, everywhere on the internet people complain how this shit doesn’t work reliably, but it works for you so everyone must be just having nightmares and mistaking them for real life.

            You never has a problem? Great for you. It still works like ass, and your and others’ “works for me” is of no help to people who are asking for a solution.

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              1 year ago

              Everywhere on the internet people are complaining that search terms in quotes on Google don’t work?

              Sure bud.

              Look how defensive you’re getting when shown evidence that it works fine and being asked for a single example to the contrary.