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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).



A comment below you mentions Verbatim Mode [0]. I haven't tried it yet, but it looks promising.

[0] https://searchenginewatch.com/sew/news/2126346/google-introd...


Verbatim mode doesn't do the trick, though. It appears to be essentially the same as quoting your search string.


You can enclose each word in quotes and that does seem to work still




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