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R.Wieser
Jan 4, 2012, 7:01:03 AM1/4/12
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Hello All,
Sometimes I have the need to do an *exact* phrase search.
Well, on Googles help in this regard is mentioned you should enclose that
phrase in double-quotes, and all will be fine.
Alas, when I do that I *still* get stoned to death with page-after-page of
results only marginally connected to the origional search-phrase. Mostly
because those un-related pages having one or more words that are also
present in the search-phrase. Its almost as if I didn't ask for an exact
match/didn't use those double-quotes at all. :-(
Worse: Even though I asked for an exact match Google assumed that as the
word "images" was in the search-query (an URL I wanted to find more cached
content for) I would be interested in results containing "photoshop" ... 8-o
My question:
How do I *REALLY* tell Google that I want to have an *EXACT* match, and
nothing more ?
Regards,
Rudy Wieser
Sometimes I have the need to do an *exact* phrase search.
Well, on Googles help in this regard is mentioned you should enclose that
phrase in double-quotes, and all will be fine.
Alas, when I do that I *still* get stoned to death with page-after-page of
results only marginally connected to the origional search-phrase. Mostly
because those un-related pages having one or more words that are also
present in the search-phrase. Its almost as if I didn't ask for an exact
match/didn't use those double-quotes at all. :-(
Worse: Even though I asked for an exact match Google assumed that as the
word "images" was in the search-query (an URL I wanted to find more cached
content for) I would be interested in results containing "photoshop" ... 8-o
My question:
How do I *REALLY* tell Google that I want to have an *EXACT* match, and
nothing more ?
Regards,
Rudy Wieser
Ralph Fox
Jan 4, 2012, 1:54:52 PM1/4/12
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On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 13:01:03 +0100, in message <4f043e50$0$6981$e4fe...@news2.news.xs4all.nl>
R.Wieser wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> Sometimes I have the need to do an *exact* phrase search.
>
> Well, on Googles help in this regard is mentioned you should enclose that
> phrase in double-quotes, and all will be fine.
>
> Alas, when I do that I *still* get stoned to death with page-after-page of
> results only marginally connected to the origional search-phrase. Mostly
> because those un-related pages having one or more words that are also
> present in the search-phrase. Its almost as if I didn't ask for an exact
> match/didn't use those double-quotes at all. :-(
When that happens, I *always* see a message like this on the first page,
R.Wieser wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> Sometimes I have the need to do an *exact* phrase search.
>
> Well, on Googles help in this regard is mentioned you should enclose that
> phrase in double-quotes, and all will be fine.
>
> Alas, when I do that I *still* get stoned to death with page-after-page of
> results only marginally connected to the origional search-phrase. Mostly
> because those un-related pages having one or more words that are also
> present in the search-phrase. Its almost as if I didn't ask for an exact
> match/didn't use those double-quotes at all. :-(
at the top and the search results below the paid ads at the top.
| No results found for "herds of swimming cats".
| Results for herds of swimming cats (without quotes):
I don't know of a Google option to say "give me a blank page when
there are no exact matches".
> Worse: Even though I asked for an exact match Google assumed that as the
> word "images" was in the search-query (an URL I wanted to find more cached
> content for) I would be interested in results containing "photoshop" ... 8-o
>
> My question:
>
> How do I *REALLY* tell Google that I want to have an *EXACT* match, and
> nothing more ?
> Regards,
> Rudy Wieser
--
Kind regards
Ralph
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