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Re:Google’s decreasingly useful, spam-filled web search by kitsune__ on Thursday January 06, 2011 @04:21AM (#2074703)
What happened to exact search queries:

For instance, if I search for "a-r" I receive results for "ar".

I hate this. It makes it impossible to filter irrelevant results.

Or try this query: "a-c" -"ac"

This will return 0 results.

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Re:Google’s decreasingly useful, spam-filled web search by cap4life on Thursday January 06, 2011 @06:01AM (#2074861)
And this is where the downfall of Google begins. I also hate that some exact queries are being broad matched without my consent.
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Re:Google’s decreasingly useful, spam-filled web search by eli on Thursday January 06, 2011 @08:36AM (#2075185)
I think your search terms are too short.

See "re-elect" -"reelect"

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