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Have you tried using "Tools -> Verbatim"?

• rbinv 3y ago
  +1, this is the only way to get old-school(ish) results, even without explicit quoting. Unfortunately, it can't be enforced just by adding parameters to the URL and has to be selected manually every time. (edit: actually it can, see below) Verbatim really highlights how almost useless the default mode has become.
  • ChoGGi 3y ago
    You can add it with parameters: tbs=li:1 https://www.google.com/search?tbs=li:1&num=30&safe=off&q=test
    • rbinv 3y ago
      Awesome, I stand corrected.
    • ryandrake 3y ago
      But that's almost worse than removing it completely! They recognize that people still need to do this, but deliberately make it more difficult in the UI.
      • nostrademons 3y ago
        (I worked on the team that added the tbs= parameter, 14 years ago.) There's nothing nefarious here. The integration of &tbs= is deeply tied into GWS; it's written into the C++ substrate, while most of the rest of the server has been rewritten in Java + a bunch of custom languages. Most likely they simply can't remove it - it's permanent technical debt that nobody has the expertise to touch anymore. Changing the UI is all done in a plugin these days, and is a relatively trivial change.
        • ChoGGi 3y ago
          > (I worked on the team that added the tbs= parameter, 14 years ago.) Thank you
  • isaacfung 3y ago
    Like ChoGGi said, you can use tbs=li:1 You can test the other parameters here. https://serpapi.com/playground?q=The+most+popular+fruit+in+the+world+is+Apple&location=New+York%2C+New+York%2C+United+States&gl=us&hl=en&tbs=li%3A1 https://serpapi.com/playground?q=The+most+popular+fruit+in+t... Other useful parameters, you can use nfpr to force it to not correct your search terms https://serpapi.com/blog/filtering-google-search-and-google-news-results/ https://serpapi.com/blog/filtering-google-search-and-google-...