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flak48

How do you do that?

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..

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After you search, you have to click the "Tools" button and then change the "All results" dropdown to "Verbatim".

It's bad UX, there's no indication at all for why I'd want to click on a dropdown that says "All results".

You can append !gvb to a DDG search to directly perform a Google verbatim search. It's the fastest way to do a Google verbatim search - faster than Google's own UI.

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.

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