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Re:Google may rank sites for queries that don't appear on th... by search_in_anger on Thursday March 21, 2019 @09:46AM (#19452229)
It's extremely common to become very frustrated and angry when you cannot get an exact match for the search terms you've entered after explicitly indicating to the search engine that you want an exact match and nothing else.

Don't mess with my search terms! Bring exact matches back! Only show pages that match the search terms!

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Re:Google may rank sites for queries that don't appear on th... by mavhc on Thursday March 21, 2019 @10:47AM (#19452924)
Verbatim mode as default?

The amount of automatically created synonyms is getting out of hand, it decided the name of where I work is a synonym for another company in the same business that's 15 miles away

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Re:Google may rank sites for queries that don't appear on th... by mehrdadn on Thursday March 21, 2019 @05:34PM (#19457587)
I never figured out what verbatim does. It certainly doesn't seem to force exact matches.
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Re:Google may rank sites for queries that don't appear on th... by JohnFen on Thursday March 21, 2019 @04:09PM (#19456718)
Verbatim mode does not resolve the issue.
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Re:Google may rank sites for queries that don't appear on th... by londons_explore on Friday March 22, 2019 @01:47AM (#19459910)
From the customers point of view, those two things are pretty similar.
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Re:Google may rank sites for queries that don't appear on th... by eitland on Thursday March 21, 2019 @03:11PM (#19456177)
Verbatim mode has been broken more than once, too :-/
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Re:Google may rank sites for queries that don't appear on th... by londons_explore on Friday March 22, 2019 @01:45AM (#19459906)
Is it possible that the times you're frustrated that verbatim search isn't working are the same times there are no decent results to your query anywhere on the internet?

It seems to me the main failing of Google is they have no good way to say "We understood your question, but the answer isn't on the internet".

Instead they just return a set of not very relevant results.

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Re:Google may rank sites for queries that don't appear on th... by vpzom on Thursday March 21, 2019 @09:59AM (#19452395)
at least Google seems to be better at that than DDG
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