This combined with the ability to negative = remove results was the last straw of usability for me.
I cant even imagine why they got rid of that, unless hundreds of thousands of people started pasting 1000-character search terms removing all the known ads currently flying around
I feel stupid for asking, but do quotes even do anything anymore? I feel like I try them and it just gives me the same results.
For me, quotes no longer are exact match. Google Search is kind of a bust.
This combined with the ability to negative = remove results was the last straw of usability for me.
I cant even imagine why they got rid of that, unless hundreds of thousands of people started pasting 1000-character search terms removing all the known ads currently flying around
They always seem to work for me. I regularly over-specify obscure error messages and get no results.
On Bing I think you have to put a plus symbol immediately following the quoted word: “keyword”+
No. But it's what verbatim mode does.