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tambourine_man on March 4, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google’s Web Search Quality. A picture is worth a ...

The problem is when the cleverness doesn't work. Then it's clippy time.

I desperately want a “don't be smart button”. Searching for code is pointless, even on quotes and verbatim.

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22this%3Aempty%22

magicalist on March 4, 2012 | [–]

http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...

That's not cleverness gone bad. You've never been able to search with a colon on regular google. I miss code search too.

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