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I feel stupid for asking, but do quotes even do anything anymore? I feel like I try them and it just gives me the same results.


For me, quotes no longer are exact match. Google Search is kind of a bust.


This combined with the ability to negative = remove results was the last straw of usability for me.

I cant even imagine why they got rid of that, unless hundreds of thousands of people started pasting 1000-character search terms removing all the known ads currently flying around


They always seem to work for me. I regularly over-specify obscure error messages and get no results.


On Bing I think you have to put a plus symbol immediately following the quoted word: “keyword”+




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