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Re:DuckDuckGo Search Improvements by kens on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @02:00PM (#21261571)
Putting terms in double quotes works perfectly for me on Google, forcing results to contain the exact term. I use this very often and never have problems with it. So it's puzzling to see comments that it doesn't work.
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Re:DuckDuckGo Search Improvements by RussianCow on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @02:29PM (#21261956)
I've had many cases where I put exact terms in double quotes, but the Google search results still contained pages that do not contain the quoted text at all. It doesn't happen often, but it's often enough to be frustrating.
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Re:DuckDuckGo Search Improvements by rurp on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @02:48PM (#21262221)
This has absolutely happened to me as well and was one of the biggest things that pushed me to switch to DDG.
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Re:DuckDuckGo Search Improvements by gcarvalho on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @02:41PM (#21262120)
I'm with you. Google not only show results where your quotation-marked token is not present but will also include results with synonyms to your token.

I think I'll analyze my browser history of Google searches that are similar enough because I'm tweaking the query to match what I want.

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