Comment on What search engines really have exact match?

WhoRoger@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Vlyn@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m just facepalming at all the people who are saying it works with quotation marks and minus signs. Bollocks works.

  Go to Google right now and search exactly for: “SearX222” with the quotation marks. You won’t get any result. Even though SearX and SearX2 find a lot of them.

  Sometimes Google offers to search for a similar term (thinking you made a typo), but if you wrap that term in quotation marks then that’s what you get.

  There are more tricks to it, but I’m facepalming at your reply.

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    A lot of the times google will automatically remove your search terms with their “did you mean…” thing, and not even give you the option to say “no, that’s not what I mean.”

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    • fubbernuckin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This is why i hate tech corporations.

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  • Hyggyldy@sffa.community ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s honestly pretty inconsistent. I’ve definitely had it completely disregard my quotes without giving me a choice.

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  • WhoRoger@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ah so it works on one query. Amazing.

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    • null@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Got an example where it doesn’t work?

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      • WhoRoger@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I don’t write down every query I use. I remember last week or so I was looking for some obscure director whose both first and last name were shared popular celebrities. Search engines needed a lot of fucking convincing to get what I needed.

        It gets worse if you’re trying to find an exact quote, or a combination of very common words that you know exist in particular formation. Yea, good luck.

        It may work when it’s really simple and when you are looking for something that would end up in top 10 results anyway. Otherwise it gets aggravating.

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  • Crazypartypony@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That wasn’t the problem, though.

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  • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    they actively DC’d Exact Match and pivoted to keyword match September 6 2018.

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