Comment on What search engines really have exact match?

• 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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    • null@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’ve never had that happen when I put a term in quotations. Always works exactly as intended for me.

      I think you’re mistaken.

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      • WhoRoger@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        This is why I hesitated to reply to you in the first place. Sure, everywhere on the internet people complain how this shit doesn’t work reliably, but it works for you so everyone must be just having nightmares and mistaking them for real life.

        You never has a problem? Great for you. It still works like ass, and your and others’ “works for me” is of no help to people who are asking for a solution.

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      • linearchaos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Nah, they’re not mistaken, Google has a bunch of long running experiments, in some of them verbatim only works if you check a box and others verbatim is broken all together.

        The verbatim searching is either crippled or outright broken for a decent percentage of users and has been for a while now.

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