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by gumballindie 885 days ago
Yeah it’s not even spam that concerns me, i can filter those websites out. Literarily searching for one term and getting results for a different term is what bothers me. Shows that there is a fundamental flaw lurking deep in there.
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Agreed. Clearly they're using some kind of fuzzy text matching, which isn't quite working correctly. They need to bring back keyword-based matching. At least provide an option to enable that.
The option to enable that is using double quotes for the most part, no?

e.g., fuzzy text matching => "fuzzy text matching"

No, that's also broken. You need to go to tools, and select "verbatim", and then often also enclose it in quotes.