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		dnautics on May 16, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What was it like to self-learn programming before ... yep, google had a better indexing of the net and also had exact string search. Altavista only had exact string search (which was better than yahoo). Since then, google no longer reliably gives you exact string searches.

jcl on May 16, 2017 [–]

I've noticed Google is pretty good about finding exact matches when you put the search terms in quotes.

dnautics on May 16, 2017 | [–]

Used to be better.

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