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by londons_explore 2356 days ago
Usually when people have this concern, it's because the page they are looking for does not exist.

I'd like to see examples where you do a search looking for a specific page, either with or without verbatim or double-quotes, and then find it via some other query. Sure, it happens, but it's very rare.
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fiblye 2355 days ago
>it's because the page they are looking for does not exist.

I could see that argument holding water if other search engines didn't give me precisely what I searched for. Google just simply tries to be smart and assume I'm looking for something other than what I input, while completely ignoring my input and replacing it entirely.

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londons_explore 2355 days ago
Give a few examples of it.

Theres a good chance whatever page you were after had a robots.txt excluding googlebot.

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eitland 2355 days ago
Would this count?

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22vulnerable+over+and+over+...

The page it is taken from is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22032966

It is clearly indexed as it shows up in this search: https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-m&biw=414&bih...

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londons_explore 2355 days ago
I think it shows up now?

Yes - I think you've hit a case where fresh content isn't indexed for phrases only keywords. That latter indexing usually takes a few hours, depending on which data center you hit and load.

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eitland 2355 days ago
Ok. It shows up now and your explanation is reasonable. Thanks!

I don't have more examples right now.

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