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Re:Ask HN: Is Google becoming useless as a search engine, or... by mdorazio on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @08:24AM (#33800331)
- still works. I just used it yesterday. Enclosing terms in quotes also mostly works as an alternative to + although it’s not quite the same. The biggest difference is that I find myself having to use both far more often than before to get non-spam results and now often have to go beyond the first page as well.
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Re:Ask HN: Is Google becoming useless as a search engine, or... by aww_dang on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @08:42AM (#33800563)
-"negative keyword" is the way to get the old behavior.
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Re:Ask HN: Is Google becoming useless as a search engine, or... by erdos4d on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @08:48AM (#33800687)
When I do quotes on google I often get hits that have the text in the description somewhere but when I open the page search for it, nada. I don't get why google can't figure out that quotes mean we actually do want the text on the page when we open it. They have a workforce the size of a small city and they can't get the most basic aspects of their job right.
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