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Re:Ask HN: Whatever happened to Wolfram Alpha? by ghostly_s on Saturday November 06, 2021 @05:57PM (#29134174)
>google aliases ubuntu and debian,

WHAT the FUCK. Is there a more convenient way to bypass this than "quoting" "every" "word?"

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Re:Ask HN: Whatever happened to Wolfram Alpha? by bbarnett on Saturday November 06, 2021 @09:11PM (#29135491)
Yes verbatim search , under search tools after an initial search.

Google takes quotes as just stronger suggestions, fyi, but verbatim is supposed to prevent this.

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Re:Ask HN: Whatever happened to Wolfram Alpha? by emmelaich on Saturday November 06, 2021 @06:26PM (#29134405)
click tools -> show all results -> verbatim
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Re:Ask HN: Whatever happened to Wolfram Alpha? by dylan604 on Saturday November 06, 2021 @07:25PM (#29134834)
i just tried this for: 48 * 6

the results after choosing verbatim are even worse

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Re:Ask HN: Whatever happened to Wolfram Alpha? by bbarnett on Saturday November 06, 2021 @09:12PM (#29135502)
Verbatim gives no aliasing, interpretation. 48 means 48, not forty eight.
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