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Ok, then. Here's what I want:

= Give me my + operator back.

= Don't "guess" at additional matches not specified in my search terms (beyond stemming). Or let me trivial, simply, and immediately specify such handling.

= Tell me the collection / last updated time of results returned, and let me actually, effectively filter based on these.

These alone should help me start to evade the massive pollution of search results that have me cringing a bit internally these days, in anticipation, every time I'm about to search for something that isn't a trivial response/result.

Thanks

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I'd love to see + do what + was supposed to do and not do the guessing. Has been frustrating to me, too -- though I suspect (this is part of what I'll be learning) that for the vast majority of people, it might help. In the meantime, when you search, after doing a search, look for Tools under the search box then select "Verbatim" which is supposed to do exactly what you ask.

Huh, TIL about Verbatim. Wish there was a setting to make it the default, like you can set SafeSearch.

Thank you. That has been mentioned, previously, and I believe there is also a corresponding query string value that can be appended to a search URL to enable it.

At least that would amend itself to e.g. being incorporated into a bookmarklet for one-click access.

    javascript:void((function(){var%20loc%20=%20location.href;%20loc.indexOf("?")%20==%20-1%20?%20(location.href%20=%20loc+"?li=1")%20:%20(location.href%20=%20loc+"&li=1");})());

or, taking a bit more care:

    javascript:void((function(){var%20loc%20=%20location.href;%20if%20(loc.indexOf('li=1')%20>=%200)%20return;%20loc.indexOf("?")%20<%200%20?%20(location.href%20=%20loc+"?li=1")%20:%20(location.href%20=%20loc+"&li=1");})());

or I guess it could be modified further to change the parm if it's already present with a different value.

Modified from (because I'm lazy):

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20677974/bookmarklet-to-...

This is almost becoming an epidemic. I find my confidence is search quality has lowered significantly since new algorithms just keeps ignoring the terms I specify. Most of the times behavior is so stupid that I can't really believe if this is not impacting heavily internal search metrics. At least the requery related metrics should have exposed the problem. I would not be surprised if it was decided to change the metrics just so these new algorithms could be deployed.

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