Google has a “search tools” drop down menu (on mobile it’s at the end of the list of images/shopping/news etc).
It’s default set to “all results”. I believe changing it to “verbatim” is closer to the older (some would say “dumber”, I would say “more predictable”) behaviour
my bad. i did not look at url bar (in my browser, it is at bottom), and could only recognise the copilot logo at the top right, so I assumed it was bing. Sorry
I thought Google was ignoring the quote operator these days. It always seemed to for me, until I quit using them.
Google has a “search tools” drop down menu (on mobile it’s at the end of the list of images/shopping/news etc).
It’s default set to “all results”. I believe changing it to “verbatim” is closer to the older (some would say “dumber”, I would say “more predictable”) behaviour
Fair enough! Not going back though, I’m doing just fine with maapl.net for now.
The OP image shows Google prioritising the quoted search term, but also getting the similar meaning results
Quotes tell the search engine you want that or something like it, don’t show stuff completely unlike it
the image shows bing though
It literally shows google.com my guy
my bad. i did not look at url bar (in my browser, it is at bottom), and could only recognise the copilot logo at the top right, so I assumed it was bing. Sorry
All I know is that the URL says google.com, I don’t see what you’re seeing