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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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null@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Okay but do you have a link or anything?

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- linearchaos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  If you search Google for “Google verbatim search broken” You can find tons and tons of different instances. The brakes are between the last word in the search not working, The search not working without verbatim being checked or the search completely ignoring for Batum all together. There are way too many of them to ignore. It’s not like in the Links are going to be scientific but a particularly trustworthy one would be here
  
  …google.com/…/is-google-results-page-no-longer-sh…
  
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  - null@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Interesting!
    
    Thanks for linking to something with actual screenshots and discussion. I concede that it does appear to be a real thing, despite never happening for me.
    
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    linearchaos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    You’re welcome and I feel you, It doesn’t happen to me either.
    
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