How much longer will we trust Google’s search results?

Re:How much longer will we trust Google’s search results? by javiercr on Friday January 24, 2020 @12:25PM (#22140386)

To get the old behaviour for literal search using quotes enable the "Verbatim mode" (Tools > All results > Verbatim)

It's a must if you're a developer searching for some obscure error message, yet still most people don't know about it.

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Re:How much longer will we trust Google’s search results? by JohnFen on Friday January 24, 2020 @12:56PM (#22140710)

> To get the old behaviour for literal search using quotes enable the "Verbatim mode" (Tools > All results > Verbatim)

That hasn't worked for me for a long time.

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Re:How much longer will we trust Google’s search results? by reaperducer on Friday January 24, 2020 @01:03PM (#22140792)

To get the old behaviour for literal search using quotes enable the "Verbatim mode"

This isn't always honored. Google has been inconsistent with this for at least two years. It's noted on HN every time someone brings this up.

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Re:How much longer will we trust Google’s search results? by gshdg on Friday January 24, 2020 @01:34PM (#22141089)

I tend to get zero results in verbatim and then find what I'm looking for after following a rabbit hole from some other search. It's like Google's given up on indexing more than 5% of the web any more.

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Re:How much longer will we trust Google’s search results? by gnusci on Friday January 24, 2020 @12:48PM (#22140628)

While I find your answer very helpful. Now I first search with Qliqz and DDG coding related stuff! It is almost impossible nowadays to find an accurate technical result out of so many adds with Google.

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Re:How much longer will we trust Google’s search results? by mthoms on Friday January 24, 2020 @02:53PM (#22141833)

Thanks for pointing this out.

I just noticed that with "Verbatim mode" enabled, Google doesn't even try to estimate the number of results available. I find that curious.

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Re:How much longer will we trust Google’s search results? by inetknght on Friday January 24, 2020 @02:11PM (#22141435)

> To get the old behaviour for literal search using quotes enable the "Verbatim mode"

This is IMO very power-user-hostile.

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