computer question

Willowbilly3 · Aug 25, 2012

Is there a way to do a search, like google, where they only show results of the exact words you want?

RattleCan · Aug 25, 2012

I have not myself found a way to stop having everything totally unrelated to what I was searching for get displayed, but typically with most browsers the use of quote marks around the phrase you enter is understood that you want an exact match. Unfortunately, all that does is ensure that the "exact match" is listed first. You will still get myriads of matches following that are closest, close, not so close and 'did you mean?' kind of close, in that descending order. If your exact match isn't displayed at all it just means it's not out there or not spelled correctly, blah. Search engines like Google like to think they know what you meant better than you do.

donsrods · Aug 25, 2012

There was a guy on TV who has a company that sells a service to other companies whereby their name will pop up at the top of any search so they get noticed first. That is why when you put in almost anything the first thing that will pop up will be Ebay, or Amazon, or someone like that.

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26Troadster · Aug 25, 2012

put "around" the word your trying.

Dirtyrat · Aug 25, 2012

http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=136861

Sam_Fear · Aug 25, 2012

Keep in mind, the first 3 returns on google are usually ads.

Go to Advance Search on Google. Use quotes around the phrase. Use quotes around each word individually - that sometimes gets different results.

Sometimes I have better luck using Google Image Search to search for something.

I've also noticed different browsers will bring up different results for the same search.