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0 pointschris_f5y ago0 comments

We will respect your search query at Runnaroo if you use quotes. Google also has a verbatim search filter, which does a decent job most of the time.

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dheera5y ago· 3 in thread

... until you want to search for something verbatim with quotes in it. Google doesn't seem to respect escaped quotes like "hello \"this\" is a test" which is quite surprising to me considering how they invent programming languages and all.

I imagine this is because the punctuation isn’t in their index at all, so it makes no difference how you format the query.

derefr5y ago

Is there an whole-Web search engine that isn’t a fulltext search engine, but rather works more like grepping a virtual text file that contains the entire Internet, such that one could match on punctuation and so forth?

dheera5y ago

They could execute the query on the index and then filter before serving.

I'm sure a thousand engineers at Google can figure this out.

Thanks, I will check it out. Good luck with the project!

the__alchemist5y ago

This looks really cool! I've on a search project as well, that looks like it has the same goal, and uses a similar approach and philosophy.

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