• towerful@programming.devEnglish
      16·
      3 months ago

      Google has a “search tools” drop down menu (on mobile it’s at the end of the list of images/shopping/news etc).
      It’s default set to “all results”. I believe changing it to “verbatim” is closer to the older (some would say “dumber”, I would say “more predictable”) behaviour

    • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
      6·
      3 months ago

      I think google still listens to the quote operator first, but if that would return no results, it then returns the results without the quotes.

      That seems to be what I’ve seen from my experience, anyway.

      • kungen@feddit.nuEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        Yeah. Or if it thinks that “you’ve spelled this word wrong”, but then you click the “search instead for…” link below it.

    • psud@aussie.zoneEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      The OP image shows Google prioritising the quoted search term, but also getting the similar meaning results

      Quotes tell the search engine you want that or something like it, don’t show stuff completely unlike it

    • sgaEnglish
      211·
      3 months ago

      the image shows bing though

        • sbird@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          9·
          3 months ago

          I think they are confusing Microsoft Edge (the browser) and Bing (the search engine). You can see the Copilot icon in the top right, so it’s probably the Edge browser.

        • sgaEnglish
          72·
          3 months ago

          my bad. i did not look at url bar (in my browser, it is at bottom), and could only recognise the copilot logo at the top right, so I assumed it was bing. Sorry