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you miss all the shots you don't take (lemmynsfw.com)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago (4 children)

I thought Google was ignoring the quote operator these days. It always seemed to for me, until I quit using them.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Google has a "search tools" drop down menu (on mobile it's at the end of the list of images/shopping/news etc).
It's default set to "all results". I believe changing it to "verbatim" is closer to the older (some would say "dumber", I would say "more predictable") behaviour

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Fair enough! Not going back though, I'm doing just fine with maapl.net for now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

SearX is pretty sweet honestly

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I think google still listens to the quote operator first, but if that would return no results, it then returns the results without the quotes.

That seems to be what I've seen from my experience, anyway.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Yeah. Or if it thinks that "you've spelled this word wrong", but then you click the "search instead for..." link below it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

The OP image shows Google prioritising the quoted search term, but also getting the similar meaning results

Quotes tell the search engine you want that or something like it, don't show stuff completely unlike it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

the image shows bing though

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago (2 children)

It literally shows google.com my guy

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

I think they are confusing Microsoft Edge (the browser) and Bing (the search engine). You can see the Copilot icon in the top right, so it’s probably the Edge browser.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

my bad. i did not look at url bar (in my browser, it is at bottom), and could only recognise the copilot logo at the top right, so I assumed it was bing. Sorry

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

All I know is that the URL says google.com, I don't see what you're seeing