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SteveDavis88yesterday at 2:51 AM6 repliesview on HN

I want a search engine that only returns results containing words I specify. Is that asking too much? Google is not that search engine.


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joe5150yesterday at 3:06 AM

I think google several years ago had gotten very good at matching on related concepts, but it just fell off a cliff after that.

bobekyesterday at 3:57 AM

Maybe try Kagi. I am pretty happy with the results.

saltysaltyesterday at 6:43 AM

I felt the same frustration: I just want keyword matching without any filtering. I'm building https://greppr.org/ to scratch that itch.

al_borlandyesterday at 3:23 AM

Isn’t that what quotes do?

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genewitchyesterday at 2:57 AM

remember when "Human speech" -robots -alien worked? those were the days. I guess there's just too much data now to search stuff like that.

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new_user_finalyesterday at 4:17 AM

Use Google verbatim mode.

https://www.google.com/search?q=beer&tbs=li:1

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