Why don't quotes in a Google search always work?
If I search for "monty python," I get the expected hits. Nothing on snakes, for instance.
But if I search for "soup-rice" I get over a million hits, all visible ones for chicken rice soup. I wanted to find out what a DUer meant by "soup-rice" as a response to a post.
I've bumped into this problem frequently.
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Arkansas Granny
(31,826 posts)LAS14
(14,682 posts)Laelth
(32,017 posts)Because of the hyphen, Google sees that as one word. Your quotation marks arent affecting the search at all. A search for soup rice (two words) will limit the search to Google articles that contain both words.
-Laelth
LAS14
(14,682 posts)What I want DOES have a dash in it.
Another post in this thread suggests that I'll never find it because it's a word play on surprise. But I'd still like to know how to search for it.
mitch96
(14,653 posts)sign that word would not show up in the search.. like Democrat -republican
Most times it works and nothing with republican shows up. Every so often it would show up.. werid
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David__77
(23,869 posts)Its not intuitive that the quotes would make a different in the case of one word- my recollection is that it does.
CloudWatcher
(1,923 posts)And ... it seems that the answer is that you can't! Google treats hyphens as word-breaks in the source material. Seems like a bug, but it's the way it's designed.
An old query for something very similar: https://support.google.com/websearch/thread/3544867?hl=en
And ... I checked and there are very similar problems with both Bing and DuckDuckGo.
It seems like a bug that should be fixed, either at Google or one of their competitors