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Does anyone know how to stop google "optimizing" searches by automatically changing words and abbreviations like ".extern" to "external" and "asm" to "assembly"?
some times it can be good, but the rest of the time its just a nuisance. In fact it'd be quite useful if someone could point out a few other search engines, google seems to be getting a bit bloated nowadays, you have to sift through 10 pages of crap to find anything useful half the time.

I believe you can just use quotation marks around the text to tell it to use *exactly* that.

furryfreak wrote:google seems to be getting a bit bloated nowadays, you have to sift through 10 pages of crap to find anything useful half the time.

That's cause it basically copies all the links in the dmoz and crawls them. Every link.

I figured out an imperfect solution, you can put a - infront of an unwanted word, however if you were to search " gas asm tutorial -assembly", all results with the word "assembly" would be omitted, so it's a kinda' double edged sword...

I believe you can just use quotation marks around the text to tell it to use *exactly* that

nah, that just makes a group of words within quotes stay in the same order, but it still replaces each individual word with similar ones.

The way I do it is I just search all of the possible combinations of the topic words and relatives separately and go a couple pages deep each time. Not very fast, but pretty effective.

This is so annoying. Putting quotes around each word (not the entire phrase) will stop some of it, but not all (it will stop annying to ann ying, but will not stop asm to american society for microbiology).

To stop that you can write -"what you don't want".

Example query: "asm" -"automatic storage management"