• drunkosaurus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 month ago

    Do these marks (- for exclusion, + for mandatory) still work on search engines? I thought they stopped entertaining them years ago, exactly because they don’t want the user to mess with SEO results. I know from personal experience that double quotes (to search for an exact expression) are ignored.

    • themoonisacheese
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      1 month ago

      Not on Google. They work on kagi and I assume they do on DDG/searx etc

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      1 month ago

      Ive found it to be inconsistent; used to not work on ddg /bing but worked today for me. Used to work on google but less so nowadays

      • ActuallyGoingCrazy
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        1 month ago

        Startpage constantly bot flagged me, even just doing normal searches. Just a shitty detector on that one.