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Re:Ask HN: Is 'search' a solved problem? by majewsky on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @04:30AM (#17301301)
> As an example, I googled for "storename return policy", and got page after page of results. All of them were tagged "missing storename", so just randomly picked return policies from other stores.

I think it helps to put the critical search term in quotes. At least in DuckDuckGo, `"storename" return policy` would exclude results that are missing "storename".

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Re:Ask HN: Is 'search' a solved problem? by bitL on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @04:35AM (#17301333)
DDG seems to have recently switched to the same atrocious imprecise search as Google is running for a few years already...

I don't want to fight with the search engine: "you meant this!" -- "nno, find me that" -- "you surely meant this so here it is!" ...

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Re:Ask HN: Is 'search' a solved problem? by singularity2001 on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @05:34AM (#17301577)
I hate DDG auto DYM (did-you-mean) so much.
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