Search could be so much better. And I don't mean chatbots with web access

Re:Search could be so much better. And I don't mean chatbots... by al_borland on Wednesday April 02, 2025 @11:23PM (#43564340)

Isn’t that what quotes do?

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Re:Search could be so much better. And I don't mean chatbots... by nixpulvis on Wednesday April 02, 2025 @11:33PM (#43564409)

I feel stupid for asking, but do quotes even do anything anymore? I feel like I try them and it just gives me the same results.

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Re:Search could be so much better. And I don't mean chatbots... by bttrpll on Wednesday April 02, 2025 @11:44PM (#43564491)

For me, quotes no longer are exact match. Google Search is kind of a bust.

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Re:Search could be so much better. And I don't mean chatbots... by beefnugs on Saturday April 05, 2025 @02:57PM (#43595879)

This combined with the ability to negative = remove results was the last straw of usability for me.

I cant even imagine why they got rid of that, unless hundreds of thousands of people started pasting 1000-character search terms removing all the known ads currently flying around

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Re:Search could be so much better. And I don't mean chatbots... by tech234a on Wednesday April 02, 2025 @11:44PM (#43564497)

On Bing I think you have to put a plus symbol immediately following the quoted word: “keyword”+

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Re:Search could be so much better. And I don't mean chatbots... by danpalmer on Thursday April 03, 2025 @12:49AM (#43564869)

They always seem to work for me. I regularly over-specify obscure error messages and get no results.

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Re:Search could be so much better. And I don't mean chatbots... by pseudalopex on Thursday April 03, 2025 @06:23AM (#43567490)

No. But it's what verbatim mode does.

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