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		beernutz on Nov 15, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google adds verbatim search mode for your exact se... Yes, THANK YOU! I find myself doing that as well. I don't understand why that is seen as an improvement. Also, I always used the + to mean "the following word or quote surrounded string HAS to appear in the result text". That seems different than quotes meaning "use this text exactly as i typed it".

RexRollman on Nov 15, 2011 [–]

I generally quote string searches but I do use pluses when I want to search for two separate strings in the same page, such as:

"Hacker News"+"Steve Jobs"

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