I can switch it to "Verbatim" and that helps sometimes, but they really can't expect anyone except very technical users to even realize that's an option (or what it does).
I can switch it to "Verbatim" and that helps sometimes, but they really can't expect anyone except very technical users to even realize that's an option (or what it does).
I've noticed Google no longer even fully respects keywords/phrases in quotes which used to force exact matches.
EDIT: NVM, found it by uhm.. googling : https://searchenginewatch.com/sew/news/2126346/google-introd...
Had no idea this existed though..
It's bad UX, there's no indication at all for why I'd want to click on a dropdown that says "All results".
Not only does appending !gvb to a DDG search perform a Google verbatim search, it also directly reveals the Google UI for searching a date range.
The combination of normal DDG plus easy access to Google verbatim and date range seaches gives a pretty nice search experience.
This happens to me regularly. More often than not, it seems like.