Can anybody

[commodorified]

1) confirm that blindingly virulent rage is a perfectly reasonable response when you type in an advanced search with limiters and alternate spellings and careful selection of AND and OR and the database says "we recognize that you took three minutes filling up that search page to your exact specs but actually we were always planning to shit every result that contains the name charles onto your unprotected head in no particular order because we assume our users are stupid and don't know what they want"?

2) Commend to me a search engine that will not do that?

3) Find me somebody to love?
(I'm fine actually but it does make a cheering earworm, no?)

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[ethelmay]

https://ahrefs.com/blog/google-advanced-search-operators/ has a complete list of advanced search terms. (I got there by searching the keywords [google search syntax] -- not actually in square brackets.)

Some of the more useful ones:

intext:

Find pages containing a certain word (or words) somewhere in the content. For this example, any results containing the word “apple” in the page content will be returned.

Example: intext:apple

allintext:

Similar to “intext,” but only results containing all of the specified words somewhere on the page will be returned.

Example: allintext:apple iphone

AROUND(X)

Proximity search. Find pages containing two words or phrases within X words of each other. For this example, the words “apple” and “iphone” must be present in the content and no further than four words apart.

Example: apple AROUND(4) iphone

[commodorified]

I don't know how this comment got past me when it dropped, but THANK YOU!!!!!!