[nixonpjoshua]

I haven't had quotations work for me in search in years now, it's really sad how boolean operators have stopped working too. I find it particularly difficult to search for "non latex" products as adding quotes on the total term no longer works and I just get products full of latex. Also I can't use boolean search to find the product because it just ignores the "-" in front of the word and gives a ton of results that match the search term latex.

Just an example where it isn't just making it harder to search for a profit motive but it's actually actively preventing (both Amazon and Google) from showing me the results or even ads for the product I actually want to buy.

If anyone has a good solution to this I would appreciate it, there is often a non-latex version of most all latex based products but finding them online is impossible if you don't already know the brand name!

[joshuaissac]

You can put Google Search into Verbatim mode (via Search tools) to make it respect quotation marks.

[saint_yossarian]

TIL, thanks! The corresponding query parameter seems to be "tbs=li:1", if anybody wants to make this the default.

[b112]

Sadly that is broken too, I find. I think it's doing some aliasing still, and other things.

[_kb]

Try using `-Lamport` to filter the latex results.

[rdiddly]

Maybe use the name of whatever the substitute is, like nitrile butadiene?

[oefnak]

Are you talking about the markup language or kinky clothes?