Comment on What search engines really have exact match?

Norgur@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• BrerChicken@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This thread has me all kinds of confused. If you want the search to look for only exact matches, you have to put the phrase into quotations. This is really basic knowledge, but I don’t see anyone actually discussing that. If you don’t use quotations, then you’ll get lots of different variations of the keywords, instead of the exact match. That works for lots of different search engines, and even searching through documents sometimes, depending on the program/app.

  source

  • Norgur@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Well, yes and no. Most search engines will start to ignore the quotations when there are few or no search results.

    source