• Jorgelino328@kbin.social
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    10 months ago

    You can use quotation marks to filter only results that have a certain word or phrase in it, rather than related content.

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      10 months ago

      You would think so wouldn’t you? But Google usually still tries to be “helpful” about everything. “100 linen” does work better, although still not perfect.

      That also doesn’t fix the issue with being unable to ignore Amazon and Walmart. On the standard search, the dash to ban a specific term makes it not the first result but it still shows up further down the page. On the dedicated product search it doesn’t seem to do anything at all.

      Here’s an example of how well search operators do these days.

      I just signed up for the free trial of Kagi, I’ll have to see how it compares.