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When I do a search that must include certain words, for example "chicken" and "egg," why is it that the top dozen or so results always omit one of the words?
The search says something like "Missing: egg. Must include: egg."
And that's not even counting the numerous ads that invariably top the results.
Is there any non-profit-based explanation for this overt omission of a required search parameter?
Enter stage left
(3,389 posts)Orrex
(63,084 posts)Enter stage left
(3,389 posts)expertise again.
I mean, why question Facebook, Twitter, Fox Noise...etc,etc,etc?
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,775 posts)You will notice that if you click on "Must include: egg", you get a new search generated for you and if you look at the search text field you'll see that "egg" is now in quotes.
chicken egg
becomes
chicken "egg"
This also applies to phrases.
So searching for
putin trump roger stone
will return different results than
putin trump "roger stone"
Orrex
(63,084 posts)But what puzzles me is that, if I enter those words in the "must include the words" field of the advanced_search page, why doesn't it omit those "doesn't include" results outright?
DAMN YOU, THE GOOGLE!
mitch96
(13,816 posts)Or there was payment to put these non requested hits high on the search..YMMV
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