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

[Doug Moen]

I tried this search in Google, and I got the same quality of results as from Kagi.com, in that all of the results contained "verbum". I recently read a forum thread about the fact that Google no longer consistently honours quoted keywords unless you turn on the "verbatim" mode that is accessed using Tools >> All Results >> Verbatim. But in the search I did, Verbatim wasn't necessary. Everybody gets different results from the same Google search due to the results being conditioned by the profile that Google constructs for you, even if you aren't logged in. Since I don't normally use Google services, and use a lot of tech to prevent Google from constructing a profile for me, maybe that made a difference in my search outcome?

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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