[WalterGR]

What do square brackets do that quotes don’t?

Potentially related: “Tell HN: Google doesn't work anymore for exact matches” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30130535

[Leftium]

I think the OP is just using square brackets to tell HN the words inside are a placeholder for their query.

(Google doesn't do anything special with the square brackets.)

[WalterGR]

Oh, I see now. Thanks.

OP is suggesting that every google search can be improved by only searching on Reddit.