Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
We've made the ways you can tell Google exactly what you want more consistent by expanding the functionality of the quotation marks operator. In addition to using this operator to search for an exact phrase, you can now add quotation marks around a single word to tell Google to match that word precisely. So, if in the past you would have searched for [magazine +latina], you should now search for [magazine "latina"].
We're constantly making changes to Google Search - adding new features, tweaking the look and feel, running experiments, - all to get you the information you need as quickly and as easily as possible. This recent change is another step toward simplifying the search experience to get you to the info you want.
I remember trying it in exasperation after searching for an unusual word and getting the predictable "You can't possibly have meant 'hovercraft' so we've given you the results for 'hooverville' instead".
I wish that you could search for "word/phrase 1" + "word word/phrase 2" with each phrase separated by other content.
!word
after searching for an unusual word and getting the predictable "You can't possibly have meant 'hovercraft' so we've given you the results for 'hooverville' instead"
site: ... (search only one website)site:
Note that, on page 103 of the leaked Google Rating Guidelines
