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Laelth

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2. Get rid of the hyphen in soup-rice.

Reply to LAS14 (Original post)

Sun Nov 22, 2020, 10:36 AM

Nov 2020

Because of the hyphen, Google sees that as one word. Your quotation marks aren’t affecting the search at all. A search for “soup rice” (two words) will limit the search to Google articles that contain both words.

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Why don't quotes in a Google search always work? [View all] LAS14 Nov 2020 OP

I don't know the post you're referring to, but was soup-rice a word play on surprise? Arkansas Granny Nov 2020 #1

Huh! I bet it was. Thanks. nt LAS14 Nov 2020 #5

Get rid of the hyphen in soup-rice. Laelth Nov 2020 #2

But if I just limit the search to those two words, I get a million chicken rice soup recipes. LAS14 Nov 2020 #6

I get a similar problem when trying to omit a word.. In the past if I put in a space and a negative mitch96 Nov 2020 #3

I think putting quotes around one word can prevent that. David__77 Nov 2020 #4

Good question! CloudWatcher Nov 2020 #7