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Ask HN: Is there a way to make Google web search work like it used to?

2 pointsby vaneckalmost 14 years ago
Hi HN community.<p>I, the same, as pretty much everyone, used to very much enjoy Google's way of doing web search. With that I mean the old way of only listing results that contained <i>all</i> the words one had searched for. This started changing a couple of years ago, and has made my work as a Sysadmin harder when searching for error messages (you can sometimes get around this by using quotes or adding plus signs before each word, but not always).<p>For an example of this sad, sad behaviour I challenge you to do a web search for "linux notebook basketball", visit the first result and find the word 'notebook' anywhere in the page.<p>So: do you know of a way to make Google default to the older and in my opinion saner behaviour? Alternatively: is there a better option available for the times when you really do know what you want to search for?<p>Thank you for your time.

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ColinWrightalmost 14 years ago
The first result I got was this:<p><a href="http://linuxonnotebooks.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/basketball-notebook-pondexter-oliver-parted-on-bad-terms-seattle-post-intelligencer/" rel="nofollow">http://linuxonnotebooks.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/basketball-...</a><p>That has all three words quite prominently placed.<p>You can always try DuckDuckGo: <a href="http://duckduckgo.com/" rel="nofollow">http://duckduckgo.com/</a>
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mayoffalmost 14 years ago
I don't think you can change the default, but you can use + to force the word to be present in the result pages: +linux +notebook +basketball