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Double quotes hasn't worked in a long time. It used to be the case that if you search "foo" "bar" it would only return documents that had the words "foo" and "b

by pliny 3y ago

Double quotes hasn't worked in a long time. It used to be the case that if you search "foo" "bar" it would only return documents that had the words "foo" and "bar". I will frequently search for z foo bar z, get documents that have synonyms of foo and bar (and the synonyms will be highlighted in the snippet), then I will search "foo" "bar" and get the same documents except now it doesn't highlight the synonyms in the snippet. Maybe I am in some awful cohort where this feature is intentionally broken to see if it reduces engagement.

marmee 3y ago
Make sure your quotes are plain quotes and not smart quotes. They used to have a bug with those
jmclnx 3y ago
>Double quotes hasn't worked in a long time Same here, but seems to be 30/70. 30% of the time it works. A while ago I was looking at an odd NetBSD issue and searched using "NetBSD". I got a few results on top, but most of the results on the first page were OpenBSD without any mention of NetBSD.
- aww_dang 3y ago
  -"OpenBSD" as a negative quoted keyword in these cases. Once you get your query dialed in, prepare to take the Turing test.