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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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