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

[Jonesy]

On Thu, 18 Jun 2020 10:52:43 +0100, Peter Flynn wrote:
> 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/

I believe Google will still do the AND'ing if you _ask_ for it:

   [ foo AND bar ]

Also, don't forget to quote phrases with spaces

   [ foo AND "bar the door" ]

Too, there's an 'elaborate' Google search web page:

   https://www.google.com/advanced_search

HTH
Jonesy