Quote marks to search for a specific phrase in order doesn’t work either. I remember in high school in the very early aughts being taught these operators. Fucking shameful.
Google, Yandex, and Bing all pull it off. DuckDuckGo fails.
Ah, maybe you’re referring to this: on mobile, you have to ignore Google results below the DMCA removal notice. On desktop - none of those spammy “tiles” with video content and the like. On mobile - yes, after the 100% exact results, you get their attempts at hooking you into staying on the site.
Quote marks to search for a specific phrase in order doesn’t work either. I remember in high school in the very early aughts being taught these operators. Fucking shameful.
It ain’t the innovation capitalists promised us, is it? Handicap the search engine so that people spend more time seeing ads, why not.
Quotation marks work well for me, still, after all these years, as their 2022 blog post claims.
They’ll find “him. But” when you search “him but”.
They’ll find “is not” when you search “isn’t”.
Saw them work in a singular and unscientific test a week ago.
One search to try on your favorite engine:
https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/581b1066-a882-4bad-90ca-30e70b59df74.jpeg
Google, Yandex, and Bing all pull it off. DuckDuckGo fails.
Ah, maybe you’re referring to this: on mobile, you have to ignore Google results below the DMCA removal notice. On desktop - none of those spammy “tiles” with video content and the like. On mobile - yes, after the 100% exact results, you get their attempts at hooking you into staying on the site.
I wonder why it works on bing and not ddg. I’ve also noticed using operators on ddg is not effective