Exact Phrase Search Issues
Users complain about search engines ignoring double quotes for exact phrase matching, delivering fuzzy, irrelevant, or 'did you mean' results instead of precise matches. Discussions highlight deteriorated functionality in tools like Google and calls for better support for operators, verbatim modes, and keyword intersections.
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Love the idea, but I can't search for exact matches using quotes :(
Wish I could search for an exact phrase. I'm getting non-relevant results.
It can't search for exact strings. Double quotes don't work.
Search "xaverius franciscus"Only one of the first six results contains the exact phrase, the others all have other characters between these two words.Search +"napoloen" And it insists on including napoleon.Please include an 'expert' mode or something for people who know what they are looking for.
For some searches the results don't include my search terms. They just go silently straight to the "did you mean?" results.
The search straight up doesn't work. You have to search for an exact word or it wont find it, ie 'hell' wont find the word 'hello'.
Googles a little better about matching exact terms if you go to search tools -> all results and change it to Verbatim
I just want keyword based search with "advanced" operators. Let me search for exact terms, etc. Let me exclude words. And don't question my directives, show me want I actually searched for on the first try, etc.
Google exact phrase matching definitely feels like it has deteriorated.
you can use the search for that relatively well, turn off "typo tolerance" and "search submission text" to have less false-positives included