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[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

The examples I’ve found fall into “caveat” territory.

From the adware company blog:

Fortunately, Google Search has a special operator for that: quotation marks. Put quotes around any word or phrase, such as [“wireless phone chargers”], and we’ll only show pages that contain those exact words or phrases.

Caveats:

Quoted searches may match content not readily visible on a page.

Quoted terms may only appear in title links and URLs.

Snippets might not show multiple quoted terms.

Quoted searches don’t work for local results.

I would be ticked if quotes didn’t work. My screenshots do show them working.

An example of them appearing to ignore quotes came up. When they pull this, I can ignore the results below the error/red line:

Further discussion:

I can’t reproduce but I wanna! (Prolly not kids though)