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A comment on Ask HN: General purpose search engine that will respect special characters?.

Re:Ask HN: General purpose search engine that will respect s... by -__- on Saturday January 24, 2026 @06:31PM (#46748861)
exa.ai/search and perplexity, and most other search engines if you put the special characters in quotes. you could also find/make an instance of searx or search across aggregators. https://searx.space/
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Re:Ask HN: General purpose search engine that will respect s... by what-if on Friday January 30, 2026 @03:19PM (#46829326)
Thank you for the suggestions. Excluding false positives and the typical hallucinations LLMs exhibit, exa.ai was useful and would often give me what I asked for. Perplexity, not as much. Searx seems interesting; I will certainly toy with it.
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