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Re:Google Makes So Much Money, It Never Had to Worry About F... by guycook on Thursday December 08, 2016 @05:09PM (#13134754)
I know exactly what you mean. "Half" "of" "my" "searches" "look" "like" "this" "these" "days". I can understand throwing out one of many keywords when I'm down on page 6, but when I search with only 4 terms and the very first result has 2 words s̶t̶r̶u̶c̶k̶ o̶u̶t̶ I start to wonder who exactly this search box is for.
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Re:Google Makes So Much Money, It Never Had to Worry About F... by mojuba on Thursday December 08, 2016 @05:24PM (#13134857)
True, and one other thing I've noticed is e.g. "Half of my searches" can bring say 200,000 results, but "Half of my" yields 50,000. A few other weird things that's been there for years and nobody seems to care. As long as consumer-level searches work and ads are clickable, Google's clock is ticking.
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Re:Google Makes So Much Money, It Never Had to Worry About F... by gniv on Thursday December 08, 2016 @07:41PM (#13135728)
I wouldn't put too much stock on those numbers. They are probably statistical estimates, not actual counts.
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Re:Google Makes So Much Money, It Never Had to Worry About F... by lobster_johnson on Friday December 09, 2016 @01:19AM (#13137051)
Under "Search tools", click on "Verbatim". It will cause the query to actually honor the words you typed.
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Re:Google Makes So Much Money, It Never Had to Worry About F... by swang on Friday December 09, 2016 @02:56AM (#13137378)
does this honor typos? i like spellcorrect changes but i hate all the other assumptions they make about my search terms.
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Re:Google Makes So Much Money, It Never Had to Worry About F... by lobster_johnson on Friday December 09, 2016 @11:34AM (#13139699)
It will show a "Did you mean:", but doesn't automatically rewrite it. Example:

https://www.google.com/search?q=gam+of+throes&tbs=li:1

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