Are you saying the quote-a-single-word thing doesn't work for you?
Re:Google Memory Loss
by Baeocystin on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @04:54AM
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It has not been a guarantee for several years, now. At best it seems to be a slightly firmer suggestion.
Do you have some example searches?
I believe you, just never seen it myself. Perhaps I switched some obscure setting on years ago.
Re:Google Memory Loss
by Baeocystin on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @06:12AM
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None that are guarantees, unfortunately. It's maddeningly inconsistent from day to day. But it isn't that rare, either. I only perform 10~20 searches using the quote feature a day, and I hit a case where it's ignored several times a week.
Re:Google Memory Loss
by timcederman on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @03:26AM
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Doesn't work consistently for me.
I asked him these exact questions. He said, the last time he checked, quoting a single word to mark it mandatory worked for him and that he definitely would know if it didn't.
I didn't insist much at the time but I knew he didn't know what he was talking about, and it made me lose hope that this feature would ever come back working like it used to.