Searching the web (was: Re: Having trouble finding a word in multiple files

[Peter Flynn]

On 18/06/2020 08:52, Chris Green wrote:

> 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.

DuckDuckGo seems to support this:
https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/syntax/

Peter