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jb1991
on Feb 15, 2019
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Altavista: The rise and fall of the biggest pre-Go...
They used to behave in Google as you describe and it was quite reliable. But somewhere along the line, Google changed how it handles search expressions (for the worse, in my opinion).
stronglikedan
on Feb 15, 2019
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A comment below you mentions Verbatim Mode [0]. I haven't tried it yet, but it looks promising.
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https://searchenginewatch.com/sew/news/2126346/google-introd...
JohnFen
on Feb 15, 2019
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Verbatim mode doesn't do the trick, though. It appears to be essentially the same as quoting your search string.
ramraj07
on Feb 16, 2019
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You can enclose each word in quotes and that does seem to work still
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