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?
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?
Got an example where it doesn’t work?
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.
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.
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.
Okay but do you have a link or anything?
If you search Google for “Google verbatim search broken” You can find tons and tons of different instances. The breaks are between the last word in the search not working, The search not working without verbatim being checked or the search completely ignoring verbatim all together. There are way too many of them to ignore. It’s not like in the Links are going to be scientific but a particularly trustworthy one would be here
https://support.google.com/websearch/thread/108355502/is-google-results-page-no-longer-showing-the-exact-term-searched?hl=en
Interesting!
Thanks for linking to something with actual screenshots and discussion. I concede that it does appear to be a real thing, despite never happening for me.
You’re welcome and I feel you, It doesn’t happen to me either.
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.
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.