Sometimes when I use exact matches like "keyword1" "keyword2" I see results that contain some of the matches but not others. Is there a search engine that only shows results with all the exact matches exactly as they are written?

  • Norgur@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Google and most other search engines will Resort to a less strict approach when there are no or very few results for your term specified.

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      1 year ago

      This thread has me all kinds of confused. If you want the search to look for only exact matches, you have to put the phrase into quotations. This is really basic knowledge, but I don’t see anyone actually discussing that. If you don’t use quotations, then you’ll get lots of different variations of the keywords, instead of the exact match. That works for lots of different search engines, and even searching through documents sometimes, depending on the program/app.

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        1 year ago

        Well, yes and no. Most search engines will start to ignore the quotations when there are few or no search results.