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SteveDavis88 | 11 months ago

I want a search engine that only returns results containing words I specify. Is that asking too much? Google is not that search engine.

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joe5150|11 months ago

I think google several years ago had gotten very good at matching on related concepts, but it just fell off a cliff after that.

bobek|11 months ago

Maybe try Kagi. I am pretty happy with the results.

saltysalt|11 months ago

I felt the same frustration: I just want keyword matching without any filtering. I'm building https://greppr.org/ to scratch that itch.

al_borland|11 months ago

Isn’t that what quotes do?

nixpulvis|11 months ago

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.

pseudalopex|11 months ago

No. But it's what verbatim mode does.

genewitch|11 months ago

remember when "Human speech" -robots -alien worked? those were the days. I guess there's just too much data now to search stuff like that.

esperent|11 months ago

> I guess there's just too much data now to search stuff like that.

That seems extremely unlikely as the reason.

It's far more likely that some executives looked at the numbers and decided that removing search operators would make people more likely to click on ads, while leaving them in would make people click on the actual results that they were searching for.