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by ktsmith 5185 days ago
While incredibly annoying putting the 4 in quotes like this: "4" will eliminate "for" from your results.
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I've been wondering. How do I do that and also search for the exact phrase "iPhone 4"? Do I type "iPhone 4" "4"?

(edit: this seems to work.)

Someone should write a browser extension or Greasemonkey script to automatically quote your Google search terms.
I discovered the "verbatim" option under the "More search tools" link on the left hand side recently.

http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...

It's not as convenient as an extension or a script, of course.

It should be easy enough to write an extension or even a bookmarklet for this. You just have to add &tbs=li:1 to the end of the URL to enable "verbatim" mode.
Not an extension, but:

http://finderr.org

Disclaimer: I made that, but I gain nothing from its usage and don't collect any private information (like the search terms).

I have one such extension on my PC (but I am on my phone now, sorry. )