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Google's annoying results
by Decius at 4:34 pm EST, Feb 5, 2009

Does anyone know how you disable the "feature" wherein Google will return results that do not include all of the search terms that were supplied?


 
RE: Google's annoying results
by noteworthy at 6:30 pm EST, Feb 5, 2009

Decius wrote:

Does anyone know how you disable the "feature" wherein Google will return results that do not include all of the search terms that were supplied?

Can you provide an example of the problem you're experiencing?

The help offers this:

Search exactly as is (+)

Google employs synonyms automatically, so that it finds pages that mention, for example, childcare for the query [ child care ] (with a space), or California history for the query [ ca history ]. But sometimes Google helps out a little too much and gives you a synonym when you don't really want it. By attaching a + immediately before a word (remember, don't add a space after the +), you are telling Google to match that word precisely as you typed it. Putting double quotes around the word will do the same thing.


 
 
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