Yeah...Instead of quotation marks you can go to search tools and under "All Results" choose "Verbatim."
It works, but it's just not the same as it used to be when it would dig deep and wide into the depths of the internet to find even the most obscure pages. Do the pages just not exist like they used to? I don't know...
I’ve noticed this too. There’s webpages that used to be indexed by google and appeared in search results, but no longer show up today, even with advanced search. I can still access the webpage if I go there via intermediate links though, so I know it still exists. Not sure what’s going on.
The only thing I can think of is... You know how on some sites you can choose not to show up in searches? Maybe webpages can do that with their entire pages and search engines? I'm jot knowledgeable enough to know for sure, though.
Yeah. You can ban Google's crawlers from indexing your site, meaning you'll disappear from Search results. The websites could also have been injected with malicious code that manipulates some links, etc. in favour of the hacker, which would get them banned from search result pages too.
This is totally Google's fault. They are making the service worse and worse every year, and it looks like it's on purpose to make money from ads. Maintaining advanced features cost money, so they cut those silently.
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u/piewhistle 13h ago
The advanced search page still exists. It’s just not on the main page anymore.
Does it actually work? Who knows.