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

[Doug Moen]

I tried this search on kagi.com and all of the search results contained all the keywords, with "verbum" highlighted in each result.

Doug.

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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