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Re:Paul Graham, the Commons, and How Google Stopped Being Go... by JonnieCache on Thursday March 22, 2012 @09:37PM (#3743151)
> Google really should have some kind of "what you type is what you get" mode

http://googlesystem.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/google-verbatim.h...

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Re:Paul Graham, the Commons, and How Google Stopped Being Go... by tba on Friday March 23, 2012 @01:26AM (#3743835)
Doesn't work as advertised -- try searching for [["everything wrong" crossfade]] in verbatim mode.
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Re:Paul Graham, the Commons, and How Google Stopped Being Go... by tripzilch on Thursday March 22, 2012 @10:25PM (#3743292)
Oh wow, if that works I'm going to use Google again. I hope there's some easy way to switch on that setting with a GET parameter so I can replace my default Google search.
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Re:Paul Graham, the Commons, and How Google Stopped Being Go... by DanBC on Thursday March 22, 2012 @10:02PM (#3743232)
..."with user-definable stemming and word substitution".
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