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by cglouch 2925 days ago
I've found that I often get better results on google if I click "Tools" under the search bar and change "All results" to "Verbatim". It seems to force it to just do the query without as much of the magic.
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They still haven't enabled Verbatim for Image searches though. The difference in results when switching from verbatim-text to images is shocking.
Yeah I have tried verbatim and it does seem to help a little in some cases. In others, it either shows totally irrelevant results or does not turn up any search results.

I wish I could do a grep style search on the web after removing all the social media and popular brands.

Even in verbatim it often results in it taking semantically similar words instead.

I'd much rather have it return no results.