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25th April 2021, 22:01 | #1 |
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google too loose
how does one instruct google to search on EXACTLY WHAT U SPECIFY? for a long time i have noticed it more interested in displaying popular NEAR MISSES than on actual results. case in point, i tried searching for the one-word name "bradward" the other day (came up in a lower decks episode), only to find the results swamped with "brad ward"s.
putting bradward in quotes significantly improved things, but there were still a lot of "brad ward"s mixed in. shouldn't the quotes be weeding those out ENTIRELY? moreover, adding a minus sign up front never seems to filter things out the way one expects. half the time it seems like it's ADDING the term to the search. and it doesn't seem to work on multiple-word strings in any case (e.g., adding " -'brad ward' " to the above searches. i sometimes see searches with a plus-sign added. what exactly does this do? what's the diff betw searching on "vaccine", say, and "+vaccine"? |
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25th April 2021, 22:12 | #2 |
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Type 'word' into google.
When results appear, along the top are a series of options. Select 'settings' Select 'Advanced Search.' Put 'word' into 'this exact word or phrase' box Et viola, the first result for 'word,' when the 'word' is 'bradward' is now: Code:
http://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Bradward_Boimler
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25th April 2021, 22:57 | #3 |
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Also, if in advanced search you also pot the word 'ward' in the 'none of these words' field, you should avoid returning results for "Brad Word".
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26th April 2021, 03:18 | #4 |
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oh, hang on, i think quotes were indeed sufficient. all of the "brad ward"s now mixed in have the one-word "bradward" somewhere on their page -- as nickname, URL, twitter handle, etc. so "exact word" under advanced search (and "verbatim" under tools?) is actually redundant. (not to mention redundant to each other!)
still, there is something materially diff betw "loose search" vs "exact search" and "keep this string together" -- quotation marks' purported role. why are they changing ANYTHING when wrapped around a one-word string? |
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