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Are there any decent search engines that do what you actually say left instead of extremely poorly trying to guess what you mean?
appears to work for me
They'll do what's profitable over what's accurate.
Make sure you aren't putting the minus symbol in quotes. The quotes are what I see people get wrong. Many people still try to use the + symbol to indicate required but Google disabled that when working on Google+ and switched to quotes to indicate required words or phrases.
The cynical take: They'll do what's profitable over what's accurate.
It's like replying "it's more profitable this way" to "why are chopsticks popular in asian culture".
I use this feature all the time. Maybe you're getting A/B tested?
The worst thing is when I'm trying to remove garbage results so things like "free account" or "need to signup" for a bunch of spam sites. Those things are always ignored.
It's stupid that I need to essentially groom my results with my own code.