Google Preemptively Banned Hundreds of Millions of 'Pirate' URLs Last Year

Re:Google Preemptively Banned Hundreds of Millions of 'Pirat... by meroes on Sunday September 03, 2023 @07:18PM (#37375564)

It’s so frustratingly bad. I “-“ a search term and it’s in the title of the first dozen results nonetheless. DDG is slightly better (they say “-“ creates fewer results with the term, not none) and it’s only one in the top 3 say. Say you want to do -order but have switch or rearrange in your search. You’re just SOL on Google. It thinks these terms are interchangeable, related enough, so it overrides -order completely.

I think you’re right. I became computer illiterate by using Google.

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Re:Google Preemptively Banned Hundreds of Millions of 'Pirat... by gniv on Monday September 04, 2023 @01:13AM (#37377317)

Try using the Verbatim option in the Tools menu.

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Re:Google Preemptively Banned Hundreds of Millions of 'Pirat... by jfoster on Monday September 04, 2023 @08:06AM (#37379692)

You can also set your default search URL in your browser to use Verbatim. Result quality can still be a bit underwhelming, but searching without Verbatim feels like going back to the 1990s.

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