Google Recently Made A Silent Shift To A New Search Algorithm, “Hummingbird”

Re:Google Recently Made A Silent Shift To A New Search Algor... by Amadou on Thursday September 26, 2013 @06:26PM (#6454022)

But for the other cases, like looking up specific serial numbers or whatever, it's a mess.

It is a boatload of extra typing, but the "allintext:" operator is your friend for those kinds of searches. I wish there was a URL modifier that could force google to assume allintext: on the search - that way I could have two different google search engines in firefox, one for literal and one for more "semiotic" searches. Maybe there is and I just don't know it?

http://www.googleguide.com/advanced_operators_reference.html...

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Re:Google Recently Made A Silent Shift To A New Search Algor... by NSAID on Thursday September 26, 2013 @10:24PM (#6454899)

You could set that up in Firefox. Create a keyword search for Google[1], and replace &q=%s in the link to &q=allintext:%s

[1] http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-search-from-address-...

EDIT: Looks like Chrome works in a similar manner: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95653

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