It's never stopped working for me, for all queries, and believe me, I use it very often.
This post reeks of Kagi spam to me.
Sorry guys, your product failed, no one is going to pay for search no matter how much Google sucks. Move on.
Ask HN: How to do literal web searches after Google destroyed the “ ” feature?
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Re: Ask HN: How to do literal web searches after Google destroyed the “ ” feature?
#42Re: Ask HN: How to do literal web searches after Google destroyed the “ ” feature?
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
+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.
You can add it with parameters: tbs=li:1 https://www.google.com/search?tbs=li:1&num=30&safe=off&q=test
Awesome, I stand corrected.
Re: Ask HN: How to do literal web searches after Google destroyed the “ ” feature?
#44Have you tried using "Tools -> Verbatim"?
+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.
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-...
Re: Ask HN: How to do literal web searches after Google destroyed the “ ” feature?
#45Kagi. Never have I been so happy to send someone $10 every month. When you become the customer, not the product, it’s amazing what can happen.
What happens if GOOG acquires Kagi?
Re: Ask HN: How to do literal web searches after Google destroyed the “ ” feature?
#46A HN comment recently recommended Yandex describing it as what Google search used to be.
After seeing the post and trying Yandex it was absolutely right, it’s what Google search used to be.
Now whenever I use Google and it’s just a list of ecommerce adds or content farms duplicating the same content without substance, I head to Yandex and get the type of results I used to get from Google.
Re: Ask HN: How to do literal web searches after Google destroyed the “ ” feature?
#47Re: Ask HN: How to do literal web searches after Google destroyed the “ ” feature?
#48Re: Ask HN: How to do literal web searches after Google destroyed the “ ” feature?
#49Just give up on trying to make google work. Google has definitely not improved. Recently I tried searching "hugginface madebyollin" (with a slight type to hugginface instead of huggingface) and it literally didn't show the obvious result. https://www.google.com/search?q=hugginface+madebyollin. I've switched to duckduckgo and couldn't be happier.
Re: Ask HN: How to do literal web searches after Google destroyed the “ ” feature?
#50You have to use a special "verbatim" search product from Google, it isn't the main search box anymore. Look under Advanced or something.
Great tip! Seems like this adds the query param "&tbs=li%3A1", so this might be something you can configure as an extra search engine in firefox. But then I am a happy kagi customer, and I was just thinking that I can't recall the last time I had to do a !g to find something. For me, google search si pretty much dead. I only use it now when on someone else's pc