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As funny as this is, it's sad that Google doesn't offer something that actually searches for the stuff you enter and doesn't try to guess your intentions or randomly jump to "Did you really mean [...], dumbass?". Kinda like it did several years ago. Heavy use of + used to do that but the new "" replacement is more of a crapshoot.


There is a "verbatim" option, under the "more search tools" menu on the bottom left of the search results.


Thanks. Right you are!

http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...

Seems to be a few months old.


Unfortunately, no option exists to turn it on by default for all searches.


I don't actually think it's funny that Google searches keep getting more crude and simplistic.


For most people, that is exactly what they need. And /that/ is the sad part.




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