Re:Ask HN: Is there room for another search engine?
by gamzer on Monday March 27, 2017 @07:07AM
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I believe it was possible in the past using URL parameters (e.g. complete=0 to disable auto-suggest) but it does not seem to work anymore.
Here it was documented in 2012:
https://airstraining.wordpress.com/2012/06/13/google-search-...
There are (or at least were) others with related effects.
Re:Ask HN: Is there room for another search engine?
by mtreis86 on Sunday March 26, 2017 @05:25PM
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Boolean search would be wonderful
Re:Ask HN: Is there room for another search engine?
by user5994461 on Sunday March 26, 2017 @05:21PM
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+word
It used to force to search the word exactly as written.
Re:Ask HN: Is there room for another search engine?
by dredmorbius on Sunday March 26, 2017 @07:53PM
(#13964106)
"Used to" is the operative phrase. That was among the negative consequences of Google+, as +<term> notation apparently was going to be reserved or repurposed for that somehow, but never was.
I've done some large-scale searching where the most relevant detail is how many results are returned, most particularly for a specific domain. (For which, incidentally, there's no handy mechanism to accomplish, so it's <array of terms> * <array of domains>, and multiplicative explosion of searches, plus about a 45s timeout per query to avoid triggering bot defenses by Google.
Such as this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/3hp41w/trackin...
When I'm seeking specific matches, I'm seeking really fucking specific matches. Google annoy me to no end.