[kwlug-disc] Search engine that actually searches for strings

[John Steel]

I searched duck duck go with that query and initially it was including bible (and highlighting it like I wanted to see it) but when I replaced the minus character it worked. Maybe somewhere along the line it was changed to a Unicode character? I also do see verbum in the results. 

On Wed, Sep 20, 2023, at 11:19 PM, Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc wrote:
> I don't know what happened to search engines, but they are getting
> worse and worse and I am getting more and more annoyed.
> 
> wordpress.com recently changed its comment form. You used to be able
> to enter in an email and name without Javascript, and you could submit
> a comment. Now they have changed to something that uses the string
> "verbum" in its class names. I want to know what this is so I can turn
> it off. So I search for something like
> 
> wordpress.com comment form "verbum" -bible
> 
> (since there is some bible site that pollutes the results).
> 
> When I search on DuckDuckGo or Google or Bing, none of the search
> results contain the string "verbum", even though in all three putting
> the terms in scare quotes is supposed to search for the exact phrase.
> This happens all the time. I try to search for exact strings and get
> nonsense. I am so tired of it. Is there a search engine I can use that
> will actually find pages containing the strings I am searching for? If
> so what is it?
> 
> - Paul
> 
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