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Re:Google now shows why it ranked a specific search result by Beached on Friday July 23, 2021 @01:25PM (#27933301)
one of the reasons I borderline hate google now is that the search results do not honor double quoted text, or subtract text like you mentioned. I have tried searched with -site: and google just ignores it and gives me results form there anyways
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Re:Google now shows why it ranked a specific search result by chrisshroba on Friday July 23, 2021 @01:28PM (#27933345)
It's always worked for me. Would you happen to have an example query that doesn't respect those things?
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Re:Google now shows why it ranked a specific search result by prophesi on Saturday July 24, 2021 @01:10PM (#27942627)
Not OP, but Google Search is a blackbox so it's possible the same query would properly block the designated URLs for you, while remaining unblocked for other users.
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