Ask HN: How to do literal web searches after Google destroyed the “ ” feature?

Re:Ask HN: How to do literal web searches after Google destr... by dihydro on Monday September 18, 2023 @09:34AM (#37555895)

Here's a URL Link to the advanced search: https://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en&fg=1

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Re:Ask HN: How to do literal web searches after Google destr... by janlukacs on Monday September 18, 2023 @09:59AM (#37556215)

wow, thanks! how did you find this link? I don't see it anywhere in the main interface.

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Re:Ask HN: How to do literal web searches after Google destr... by late25 on Monday September 18, 2023 @10:22AM (#37556489)

I tried it and it looks like it does nothing but wrap my query in quotes… and then return non-exact results if not found. How is this any different than what people have historically done?

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Re:Ask HN: How to do literal web searches after Google destr... by Izkata on Monday September 18, 2023 @12:00PM (#37558027)

That isn't different, Verbatim search isn't on the advanced search page. You can only get to it from the search results page like in my earlier comment.

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Re:Ask HN: How to do literal web searches after Google destr... by Izkata on Monday September 18, 2023 @11:59AM (#37558014)

It's not on that page, you can only switch to Verbatim on the search results. OP was mistaken.

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