<story><title>Google adds verbatim search mode for your exact search terms</title><url>http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2011/11/search-using-your-terms-verbatim.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Matt_Cutts</author><text>I know that a lot of people were sad that we switched from +word to &quot;word&quot; to do an exact match for a word.&lt;p&gt;The good news is that we&apos;re rolling out a &quot;literal mode&quot; that will search for &lt;i&gt;exactly&lt;/i&gt; the words you typed. It does a verbatim match with your words, so it turns off things like spelling corrections, stemming, synonyms, optionalized terms, and so on. I think we saw multiple proposals for this on Hacker News, so thanks for the suggestion.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>redthrowaway</author><text>Still waiting on being able to search for punctuation.  Being able to search for &quot;$. ruby&quot; or &quot;$_ perl&quot; or &quot;$: &amp;#60;&amp;#60; &apos;.&apos; ruby&quot; would be super handy.&lt;p&gt;edit:  Just realized &quot;$_ perl&quot; actually does work.  It would be nice, however, if we could search for these kinds of terms generally and not just in specific case.</text></comment>
<story><title>Google adds verbatim search mode for your exact search terms</title><url>http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2011/11/search-using-your-terms-verbatim.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Matt_Cutts</author><text>I know that a lot of people were sad that we switched from +word to &quot;word&quot; to do an exact match for a word.&lt;p&gt;The good news is that we&apos;re rolling out a &quot;literal mode&quot; that will search for &lt;i&gt;exactly&lt;/i&gt; the words you typed. It does a verbatim match with your words, so it turns off things like spelling corrections, stemming, synonyms, optionalized terms, and so on. I think we saw multiple proposals for this on Hacker News, so thanks for the suggestion.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>redler</author><text>Matt, do you know if there are any plans to once again allow the mixing of exact match with the regular fuzzier search functionality? It&apos;s great to have exact matching back, but I often found it a useful strategy to build the search loosely, then refine with +specifics. Perhaps something like this, in exact match mode:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  ~run ~sprint ~hurdle nike
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
could be the equivalent of the old:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  run sprint hurdle +nike&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</text></comment>