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Re:Get better at Googling by elondaits on Friday April 23, 2021 @12:04PM (#26916147)
Try opening the “Search tools” menu in the results page and selecting “Verbatim”... I think that makes “literal” searches work, because otherwise Google uses synonyms and language analysis to attempt to match your search to results.
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Re:Get better at Googling by tyingq on Friday April 23, 2021 @12:43PM (#26916552)
The query parameter google adds for verbatim matches is tbs=li, so you can append that to the url, like

  https://www.google.com/search?q="somestring"&tbs=li
Some other uses of "tbs": https://stenevang.wordpress.com/2013/02/22/google-advanced-p...
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Re:Get better at Googling by eitland on Friday April 23, 2021 @02:51PM (#26917871)
That too has consistently failed between 2007 and late 2020.

Now it just fails inconsistently (i.e. it sometimes works).

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Re:Get better at Googling by vram22 on Friday April 23, 2021 @06:22PM (#26919894)
Google the company, runs on an algorithm of arbitrary complexity.
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