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  • Using quotes in Google search

    Has Google changed something recently? If I'm searching for somebody by name I usually put quotes around their name, and if it finds nothing then I try again with surname first,
    e.g. "John Vidgen Parsons" then "Parsons John Vidgen". Just now, the first search came up with a message saying no matches found for the whole thing so it gave me results for John Vidgen Parsons with no quotes, but my second search doesn't say that - it just asks me if I mean "Parsons John Ogden" and then gives me what I suppose must again be the matches without quotes, but since it doesn't actually say so, can I be sure there isn't a full match somewhere in there without looking through them all?
    KiteRunner

    Every five years or so I look back on my life and I have a good... laugh"
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    I haven't noticed any recent change, except that, as you say, if there are no results for the phrase in inverted commas it automatically gives a list of hits without the inverted commas.

    I'll experiment a bit and see what happens.

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    • #3
      I've just tried it with one of my more unusual names (David John Aurelius), and it behaves as you'd expect it to even when I reverse the name order (ie. it finds no results and gives me the hits for the name without quotes).

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      • #4
        I've also noticed a change in the last few days. In addition to the change Kite mentions where it comes up with "No results found for ..." followed by a list of results without the quotes, I used to be able to search for a phrase by only putting in the first quotation mark, but not the second. But that doesn't work anymore, and just searches as if it were without quotes.
        Sarah

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        • #5
          Hmm, I'm also getting different kinds of results when trying different combinations of quotes around two words compared to three words.
          Sarah

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