[rbinv]

+1, this is the only way to get old-school(ish) results, even without explicit quoting. Unfortunately, it can't be enforced just by adding parameters to the URL and has to be selected manually every time. (edit: actually it can, see below)

Verbatim really highlights how almost useless the default mode has become.

[ChoGGi]

You can add it with parameters: tbs=li:1

    https://www.google.com/search?tbs=li:1&num=30&safe=off&q=test

[ryandrake]

But that's almost worse than removing it completely! They recognize that people still need to do this, but deliberately make it more difficult in the UI.

[nostrademons]

(I worked on the team that added the tbs= parameter, 14 years ago.)

There's nothing nefarious here. The integration of &tbs= is deeply tied into GWS; it's written into the C++ substrate, while most of the rest of the server has been rewritten in Java + a bunch of custom languages. Most likely they simply can't remove it - it's permanent technical debt that nobody has the expertise to touch anymore.

Changing the UI is all done in a plugin these days, and is a relatively trivial change.

[ChoGGi]

> (I worked on the team that added the tbs= parameter, 14 years ago.)

Thank you

[rbinv]

Awesome, I stand corrected.

[isaacfung]

Like ChoGGi said, you can use tbs=li:1 You can test the other parameters here.

https://serpapi.com/playground?q=The+most+popular+fruit+in+t...

Other useful parameters, you can use nfpr to force it to not correct your search terms

https://serpapi.com/blog/filtering-google-search-and-google-...