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by softwaredoug·7y ago·view on hn ↗
Yes you’re right. I missed the “” in your comment and failed at reading comprehension
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But there's more to it anyway.

I've interpreted searches. Database searches, not web pages, but my problems should apply to web search too: For example, a user who types "märz 2019" with quotes might mean that string, in German, or might on the other hand mean that particular month and use the quotes to eliminate february 2019, march 2018, etc. And people enter the exact string they remember in the hope of avoiding a sea of mismatches, but then they either mistype or don't remember quite the right wording.

This has nothing with the quality of the search results. This belongs in the "did you mean" box at the top.