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Avoid irrelevant search results
Is there a search engine or technique that will only return results with terms I search for?
It seems no matter the engine I use, there are more and more irrelevant results. For example, search Google for any group of words, hulk volvo widget for example, many of the results have one of the words or any combination of two terms but few if any have all three, WTF!?
What search do you use to get results that have ALL of the terms and not all the other BS?
It seems no matter the engine I use, there are more and more irrelevant results. For example, search Google for any group of words, hulk volvo widget for example, many of the results have one of the words or any combination of two terms but few if any have all three, WTF!?
What search do you use to get results that have ALL of the terms and not all the other BS?
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I'm not looking for a phrase as quotes around all words would search. This is not for any specific search but for any group of words. Even if I go to advanced search and enter words where it says search for ALL the words, it returns results that don't have ALL of the words and it's really annoying. Make up any three seemingly unrelated words and see what I mean.
What I'm looking for is if I search for three words and they only appear together on three pages on the Internet, I don't care to wade through thousands of results. I'm looking for an engine or technique that will ONLY return those three pages, not what some algorithm thinks I want to buy or may be looking for. Does such a thing exist?
What I'm looking for is if I search for three words and they only appear together on three pages on the Internet, I don't care to wade through thousands of results. I'm looking for an engine or technique that will ONLY return those three pages, not what some algorithm thinks I want to buy or may be looking for. Does such a thing exist?
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Google, Yahoo, and Bing are not going to do what you want because they want you to stay on their pages and read the ads.
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Unfortunately it seems there is no answer to this. Thanks for all the contributions.
>Unfortunately it seems there is no answer to this.
Sometimes the answer is not the answer you were expecting to get and this is one of those times the answer is there is no direct answer short of creating your own search engine.
Sometimes the answer is not the answer you were expecting to get and this is one of those times the answer is there is no direct answer short of creating your own search engine.
If you just search, hulk volvo widget the result I see is one with all 3 then the remainder are a best guess with only 2 of the 3 items.
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&as_q=hulk+volvo+widget&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&lr=&cr=&as_qdr=all&as_sitesearch=&as_occt=any&safe=images&tbs=&as_filetype=&as_rights=
What are you trying to search for?