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[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

I thought Google was ignoring the quote operator these days. It always seemed to for me, until I quit using them.

[-] towerful@programming.dev 15 points 1 year ago

Google has a "search tools" drop down menu (on mobile it's at the end of the list of images/shopping/news etc).
It's default set to "all results". I believe changing it to "verbatim" is closer to the older (some would say "dumber", I would say "more predictable") behaviour

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Fair enough! Not going back though, I'm doing just fine with maapl.net for now.

[-] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 3 points 1 year ago

SearX is pretty sweet honestly

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 5 points 1 year ago

I think google still listens to the quote operator first, but if that would return no results, it then returns the results without the quotes.

That seems to be what I've seen from my experience, anyway.

[-] kungen@feddit.nu 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah. Or if it thinks that "you've spelled this word wrong", but then you click the "search instead for..." link below it.

[-] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The OP image shows Google prioritising the quoted search term, but also getting the similar meaning results

Quotes tell the search engine you want that or something like it, don't show stuff completely unlike it

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