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Re: Google adds verbatim search mode for your exact search terms

#11

Post by Xuzz »

brador wrote: post #10
Matt_Cutts wrote: post #2

I know that a lot of people were sad that we switched from +word to "word" to do an exact match for a word. The good news is that we're rolling out a "literal mode" that will search for exactly the words you typed. It does a verbatim match with your words, so it turns off things like spelling corrections, stemming, synonyms, optionalized terms, and so on. I think we saw multiple proposals for this on Hacker News, so…

This isn't really the solution we were looking for Matt. Can we replace the + operator with something else? How about¬? We don't use that very often to the point I don't even know what it's called, but it's there on the keyboard in one keypress.

Not on US keyboards, I don't think.

Re: Google adds verbatim search mode for your exact search terms

#12

Post by georgemcbay »

brador wrote: post #10
Matt_Cutts wrote: post #2

I know that a lot of people were sad that we switched from +word to "word" to do an exact match for a word. The good news is that we're rolling out a "literal mode" that will search for exactly the words you typed. It does a verbatim match with your words, so it turns off things like spelling corrections, stemming, synonyms, optionalized terms, and so on. I think we saw multiple proposals for this on Hacker News, so…

This isn't really the solution we were looking for Matt. Can we replace the + operator with something else? How about¬? We don't use that very often to the point I don't even know what it's called, but it's there on the keyboard in one keypress.

Speak for yourself. I've been wanting this solution for years.

Re: Google adds verbatim search mode for your exact search terms

#13

Post by davorak »

redler wrote: post #7
Matt_Cutts wrote: post #2

I know that a lot of people were sad that we switched from +word to "word" to do an exact match for a word. The good news is that we're rolling out a "literal mode" that will search for exactly the words you typed. It does a verbatim match with your words, so it turns off things like spelling corrections, stemming, synonyms, optionalized terms, and so on. I think we saw multiple proposals for this on Hacker News, so…

Matt, do you know if there are any plans to once again allow the mixing of exact match with the regular fuzzier search functionality? It's great to have exact matching back, but I often found it a useful strategy to build the search loosely, then refine with +specifics. Perhaps something like this, in exact match mode: ~run ~sprint ~hurdle nike could be the equivalent of the old: run sprint hurdle +nike

Yes please allow something like this, mixing verbatim with fuzzier search functionality is powerful.

Re: Google adds verbatim search mode for your exact search terms

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Post by [deleted] »

redler wrote: post #7
Matt_Cutts wrote: post #2

I know that a lot of people were sad that we switched from +word to "word" to do an exact match for a word. The good news is that we're rolling out a "literal mode" that will search for exactly the words you typed. It does a verbatim match with your words, so it turns off things like spelling corrections, stemming, synonyms, optionalized terms, and so on. I think we saw multiple proposals for this on Hacker News, so…

Matt, do you know if there are any plans to once again allow the mixing of exact match with the regular fuzzier search functionality? It's great to have exact matching back, but I often found it a useful strategy to build the search loosely, then refine with +specifics. Perhaps something like this, in exact match mode: ~run ~sprint ~hurdle nike could be the equivalent of the old: run sprint hurdle +nike

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Re: Google adds verbatim search mode for your exact search terms

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Post by losvedir »

Hooray! Does the "more search tools" menu learn from the user which tools are useful to them? I seem to recall at one point having to open the search tools for the helpful timeframe narrowing options, but now those routinely appear exposed on the left.

If after a few times using verbatim it realized I was a "power user" and always had that option sitting on the side for me, I'd love it.

Re: Google adds verbatim search mode for your exact search terms

#16

Post by Matt_Cutts »

brador wrote: post #10
Matt_Cutts wrote: post #2

I know that a lot of people were sad that we switched from +word to "word" to do an exact match for a word. The good news is that we're rolling out a "literal mode" that will search for exactly the words you typed. It does a verbatim match with your words, so it turns off things like spelling corrections, stemming, synonyms, optionalized terms, and so on. I think we saw multiple proposals for this on Hacker News, so…

This isn't really the solution we were looking for Matt. Can we replace the + operator with something else? How about¬? We don't use that very often to the point I don't even know what it's called, but it's there on the keyboard in one keypress.

I'll pass the feedback on. Part of the issue with + is that it turned out a lot of people were mistyping queries with + when as far as we could tell, they weren't trying to match an exact word. Getting further off the beaten path with a more rare character might help though.

Re: Google adds verbatim search mode for your exact search terms

#17

Post by Xuzz »

redler wrote: post #7
Matt_Cutts wrote: post #2

I know that a lot of people were sad that we switched from +word to "word" to do an exact match for a word. The good news is that we're rolling out a "literal mode" that will search for exactly the words you typed. It does a verbatim match with your words, so it turns off things like spelling corrections, stemming, synonyms, optionalized terms, and so on. I think we saw multiple proposals for this on Hacker News, so…

Matt, do you know if there are any plans to once again allow the mixing of exact match with the regular fuzzier search functionality? It's great to have exact matching back, but I often found it a useful strategy to build the search loosely, then refine with +specifics. Perhaps something like this, in exact match mode: ~run ~sprint ~hurdle nike could be the equivalent of the old: run sprint hurdle +nike

You still can do that, you just have to use "quotes" "around" "the" "words" instead of +putting +the +plus +sign +before +each +word. This just lets you get that type of search for every word easier.

Re: Google adds verbatim search mode for your exact search terms

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Post by espeed »

In the past, we provided users with the “+” operator to help you search for specific terms. However, we found that users typed the “+” operator in less than half a percent of all searches, and two thirds of the time, it was used incorrectly. A couple of weeks ago we removed the “+” operator, encouraging the use of the double quotes, which are more likely to be used correctly.

Actually, Google decided to repurpose the + operator for Google Plus Pages Direct Connect (http://www.google.com/support/plus/bin/answer.py?hl=en&p...).

Re: Google adds verbatim search mode for your exact search terms

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Post by DanBC »

redler wrote: post #7
Matt_Cutts wrote: post #2

I know that a lot of people were sad that we switched from +word to "word" to do an exact match for a word. The good news is that we're rolling out a "literal mode" that will search for exactly the words you typed. It does a verbatim match with your words, so it turns off things like spelling corrections, stemming, synonyms, optionalized terms, and so on. I think we saw multiple proposals for this on Hacker News, so…

Matt, do you know if there are any plans to once again allow the mixing of exact match with the regular fuzzier search functionality? It's great to have exact matching back, but I often found it a useful strategy to build the search loosely, then refine with +specifics. Perhaps something like this, in exact match mode: ~run ~sprint ~hurdle nike could be the equivalent of the old: run sprint hurdle +nike

Isn't

    run sprint hurdle "nike"
what you want?

Re: Google adds verbatim search mode for your exact search terms

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Post by [deleted] »

georgemcbay wrote: post #12
brador wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This isn't really the solution we were looking for Matt. Can we replace the + operator with something else? How about¬? We don't use that very often to the point I don't even know what it's called, but it's there on the keyboard in one keypress.

Speak for yourself. I've been wanting this solution for years .

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