Having trouble finding a word in multiple files

[Chris Green]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 11:05:34PM +0100, Peter Flynn wrote:
> 
> On 17/06/2020 20:39, Liam Proven wrote:
> > On Tue, 16 Jun 2020 at 21:07, rikona <rikona at sonic.net> wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Thanks. Sounds pretty general purpose. For on-box text, does it have
> > > things like proximity searching? [word A within 5 words of word B]
> > 
> > Nope, not AFAIK.
> > 
> > This is a 15Y old feature; I'm surprised it's news to anyone.
> 
> I think for the reasons you (or someone) gave: people have forgotten how to
> search accurately because Google doesn't implement anything except "" and
> the - (they removed the + years ago).
> 
Yes (although this has now crept a long way away from the original
subject) I find that Google (and other search engines) are getting
steadily less and less useful.  I want a search engine that searches
for *exactly* what I put in with an implicit AND between all the
terms.  That's what Google originally did and it's why it was so much
better than most other search engines at the time because it was the
only one that did the AND.  All the others ORed the terms which made
refining a search almost impossible.

-- 
Chris Green