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Comment by arohner | Hacker News Reader

Not really. I've had this break for me all the time when searching for programming terms.

Proof: Google for "what we have here is failure to communicate" http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8...

The first hit is the wiki article on the quote (good), but the exact search string is not present on the page.

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Putting double quotes around a phrase does an exact phrase search. But as studer mentions, we also do exact phrase searches in anchortext pointing to the page, so you can get a match that way.

No kidding! I thought that the quotes made the term inviolable. I wonder if this is new.

A big issue with Google is that, behind the scenes, things change without any outward guidance to longterm users on how to adjust.

It's not new. And + doesn't mean required any more, either. It's treated as increased importance, but not required.

I've been complaining about these changes for years.

Click "cached", and you get the explanation:

"These terms only appear in links pointing to this page: what we have here is failure to communicate"

This is one of the worst 'features' I have been fighting recently (along with most of the other beefs around here). I am trying to find an appliance review for a stove prone to breaking so I search:

"Brand Model 1234 broken control panel"

And get an aggregate review page with a mention of broken control panels for another model and brand on which my model and brand are not listed....

I'm glad that my search term is in a link pointing to this page, but that is worth less than nothing to me...

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