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  • brbposting@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    The examples I’ve found fall into “caveat” territory.

    From the adware company blog:

    Fortunately, Google Search has a special operator for that: quotation marks. Put quotes around any word or phrase, such as [“wireless phone chargers”], and we’ll only show pages that contain those exact words or phrases.

    Caveats:

    Quoted searches may match content not readily visible on a page.

    Quoted terms may only appear in title links and URLs.

    Snippets might not show multiple quoted terms.

    Quoted searches don’t work for local results.

    I would be ticked if quotes didn’t work. My screenshots do show them working.

    An example of them appearing to ignore quotes came up. When they pull this, I can ignore the results below the error/red line:

    Further discussion:

    I can’t reproduce but I wanna! (Prolly not kids though)