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by extempore 2149 days ago
FYI there’s a search mode called verbatim, and it’s not the same as putting the individual words in quotes. It’s hidden under the search tools menu. In my experience the results it provides always contain the search terms.
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Why on earth is that not the default?
Because it's wrong for basically everyone. Spelling errors, stemming, etc. Most people want pages that match what they mean not what they typed and for natural language (vs programming topics) that's right.