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jameslk ◴[] No.42892519[source]
If I start fucking adding swear words to all my fucking search queries, how the fuck will the stupid ass search engine know that I did not want it to use that shit as one of my keywords and give me back a whole lot of fucked up shit?
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edflsafoiewq ◴[] No.42893107[source]
It's not like it doesn't freely ignore any unquoted word whenever it feels like it.
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bmurphy1976 ◴[] No.42893141[source]
The quoted words search barely works these days anyway.
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1. nixonpjoshua ◴[] No.42893609{3}[source]
I haven't had quotations work for me in search in years now, it's really sad how boolean operators have stopped working too. I find it particularly difficult to search for "non latex" products as adding quotes on the total term no longer works and I just get products full of latex. Also I can't use boolean search to find the product because it just ignores the "-" in front of the word and gives a ton of results that match the search term latex.

Just an example where it isn't just making it harder to search for a profit motive but it's actually actively preventing (both Amazon and Google) from showing me the results or even ads for the product I actually want to buy.

If anyone has a good solution to this I would appreciate it, there is often a non-latex version of most all latex based products but finding them online is impossible if you don't already know the brand name!

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2. joshuaissac ◴[] No.42893717[source]
You can put Google Search into Verbatim mode (via Search tools) to make it respect quotation marks.
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3. _kb ◴[] No.42893761[source]
Try using `-Lamport` to filter the latex results.
4. saint_yossarian ◴[] No.42893945[source]
TIL, thanks! The corresponding query parameter seems to be "tbs=li:1", if anybody wants to make this the default.
5. bbarnett ◴[] No.42894528[source]
Sadly that is broken too, I find. I think it's doing some aliasing still, and other things.
6. rdiddly ◴[] No.42895037[source]
Maybe use the name of whatever the substitute is, like nitrile butadiene?
7. oefnak ◴[] No.42897150[source]
Are you talking about the markup language or kinky clothes?