<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title><style type="text/css">p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div>I searched duck duck go with that query and initially it was including bible (and highlighting it like I wanted to see it) but when I replaced the minus character it worked. Maybe somewhere along the line it was changed to a Unicode character? I also do see verbum in the results. <br></div><div><br></div><div>On Wed, Sep 20, 2023, at 11:19 PM, Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style=""><div>I don't know what happened to search engines, but they are getting<br></div><div>worse and worse and I am getting more and more annoyed.<br></div><div><br></div><div>wordpress.com recently changed its comment form. You used to be able<br></div><div>to enter in an email and name without Javascript, and you could submit<br></div><div>a comment. Now they have changed to something that uses the string<br></div><div>"verbum" in its class names. I want to know what this is so I can turn<br></div><div>it off. So I search for something like<br></div><div><br></div><div>wordpress.com comment form "verbum" -bible<br></div><div><br></div><div>(since there is some bible site that pollutes the results).<br></div><div><br></div><div>When I search on DuckDuckGo or Google or Bing, none of the search<br></div><div>results contain the string "verbum", even though in all three putting<br></div><div>the terms in scare quotes is supposed to search for the exact phrase.<br></div><div>This happens all the time. I try to search for exact strings and get<br></div><div>nonsense. I am so tired of it. Is there a search engine I can use that<br></div><div>will actually find pages containing the strings I am searching for? If<br></div><div>so what is it?<br></div><div><br></div><div>- Paul<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>-- <br></div><div>Events: <a href="https://feeds.off-topic.kwlug.org">https://feeds.off-topic.kwlug.org</a> <br></div><div>Housing: <a href="https://unionsd.coop">https://unionsd.coop</a><br></div><div>Blog: <a href="http://pnijjar.freeshell.org">http://pnijjar.freeshell.org</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>_______________________________________________<br></div><div>kwlug-disc mailing list<br></div><div>To unsubscribe, send an email to <a href="mailto:kwlug-disc-leave@kwlug.org">kwlug-disc-leave@kwlug.org</a><br></div><div>with the subject "unsubscribe", or email<br></div><div><a href="mailto:kwlug-disc-owner@kwlug.org">kwlug-disc-owner@kwlug.org</a> to contact a human being.<br></div><div><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div></body></html>