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I've been seeing this too. So after reading your comment and the one above, I did a search to see what operators are still supported by Google and stumbled across this page: https://ahrefs.com/blog/google-advanced-search-operators/

It's nice to see that AND and OR still work, but from a few tests, it seems that most of us should be prefacing our searches with "allintext:" (without the quotation marks). It works well to dramatically improve the results of my searches. I think I'll write myself a google search page that automatically prepends it to my searches.

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From that article:

> “search term” > > Force an exact-match search.

This is no longer working in my experience, at least for full phrases (for example error messages), same in DuckDuckGo

Agreed. Quotation mark functionality in Google seems to be sadly dysfunctional.

I guess I buried the lede. I probably should have just focused on the allintext: operator in my comment. That's the operator that makes a huge difference in my searches and that I wanted to share.

I got the message loud and clear :-)

Now I just wonder if that is Kagis magic trick

- and how long it will take before Google "repairs away" this feature too :-(

Wow!

I have been a really advanced Google user and somehow I have missed that particular one!

Edit:

1. Reading through it I am fairly certain some of these has been defect too. define: in particular is one that I used to use, but that I was sure was broken. Today it worked again though.

2. At least double quotes still doesn't work (or maybe they include text from links pointing to site or something)

3. How did you find this? I've been looking for something like this recently :-)

I use duckduckstart.com and I don't recall adding a bang to the search, so it was probably in the startpage.com results when I searched for "Google search operators."

Most of these aren't working anymore... extremely frustrating

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