I used this quite frequently but since Google “”““improved””“” it last year (there was a popular HN post complaining about this) it doesn’t work anymore. Search for a domain name with quotation marks for example just recombines the contents of the domain and returns a bunch of unrelated content completely cluttering what I am looking for. Until last year it used to return no search results if there weren’t any exact matches, which is the whole point.
Does someone have a work around for this phenomenal Google decision?
There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.
Searching for jackets: ✅
Searching for long jackets: ❌
I’m so used to having the second option be images. So now I often click the products tab or whatever option it thought up and I know for a fact that Google is gonna take that one misguided click and run a whole ad campaign on it.