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You have to use a special "verbatim" search product from Google, it isn't the main search box anymore. Look under Advanced or something.
Kagi. 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?
Use Bing? I've found for code/error message snippets in particular Bing is often better, while Google will incorrectly guess I mean some related but different thing and serve the wrong results.
A 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.
A 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.
That's not my experience? The quotes still seem to work for me? Do you have a specific example? And / or can you point to said HN post?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
On the search results page, there's a "Tools" button in the upper-right that expands two dropdowns. Change "All results" to "Verbatim".
Wow, that's a good tip.
Kagi. 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.
When you make your account, you're given the option to customize. When you do, you can pick things like color theme and how URLs are displayed. On the right hand side of the page there is a preview of what your Kagi searches will look like.
In my example, the demo Kagi search is Magic The Gathering. I play a lot of Magic The Gathering. I spend most of my time online searching for things related to MtG or brewing decks, second only to things related to software development.
I imagine it's coincidence. MtG is a pretty nerdy hobby and Kagi seems like a pretty nerdy product. However, it made me uncomfortable enough to ask:
Is that what it shows for everyone? Or is there some tracking going on already that is being demoed? It's almost certainly the former given the positioning of Kagi in the search market, but I'd like to be sure.