Comment by floren
15 days ago
Basically a common StackOverflow problem: "Well, you asked for X, but I don't know how to do X, so here's how to do Y instead."
15 days ago
Basically a common StackOverflow problem: "Well, you asked for X, but I don't know how to do X, so here's how to do Y instead."
Except more often then not the info I'm looking for does exist and is available with generous use of double quotes to direct Google to do literal string searches. Except yesterday I encountered Google refusing to honor even that for a search of a cultural event that sounded like "Dante's Inferno" but with a slight misspelling. Even encapsulating the phrase with the spelling I'm looking for in double quotes - Google still gave me matches for "Dante's Inferno" instead.
Oddly enough Google gave me what I was looking for with a literal string search on mobile (followed by a confirmation that I wanted what I typed in and not what Google autocorrected it to).
On the search results screen there's a "Tools" dropdown that lets you change "All results" to "Verbatim", sounds like that's what you actually wanted.
I did that. Even my query searched within Verbatim was ignored in favor of an autocorrected one with no means available for me to direct Google to search for my original query on my Desktop.