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Thanks. Yes, I understand about the punctuation now.

About 'napoloen', I often search for non-english words that differ only one letter from an English word (English is my fourth language). I wish there was a way to permanently disable "Did you mean?"-results.

A new one... I just got this, searching for: libmad +tutorial

Several results with "Missing: +tutorial"... Why are results included that do not contain the word 'tutorial'?

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Again, the + symbol isn't a command and does nothing. If you searched for [libmad +tutorial] we saw that as as search for pages with both or either of two words, libmad OR +tutorial, plus any related words or synonyms, like tutorial.

So with that search, we're trying to show you things we think are relevant, and there aren't a lot of pages relevant with the word +tutorial on them. Tutorial, yes -- but not +tutorial.

In this case, what you really want is this: [libmad "tutorial"] -- that says get pages that have both words or words related to libmad but ONLY pages that actually have the word tutorial on them.

libmad "tutorial". The + does nothing.

So basically always double quote every word. Thanks.

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