Tell HN: Use ā€œVerbatim modeā€ to fix Google search

  • This reads like encouraging people to stay with an abusive partner. He will change anytime now...

  • I have been using Verbatim mode for years. The quality of results for this mode has declined too drastically. Verbatim mode is not true to its name anymore. For the last several months, verbatim mode has been performing even more poorly for me than the default mode.

    Various prior HN discussions on degradation in Google search quality have talked about Verbatim mode too.

  • It looks like it appends tbs=li:1 to the url. Contrast All https://www.google.com/search?q=Python with Verbatim https://www.google.com/search?q=Python&tbs=li:1

  • I've used verbatim mode for awhile, but I don't know why the time/date filter work with it though :(

  • Yeah, especially in the last month. Searching for anything about Flutter Web basically only returns results about pure web, now. I love that they don't even consider their own framework to be an important keyword...

  • What is the difference. What exactly does this do?