Google seems to drop alot of things when I search for specific
sequences of text...
For example:
"PHP: if" site:www.php.net
turns up garbage for some reason. It completely misses the page with the
title "PHP: if".
Now, for some odd reason, although this is not a Google problem, but
when I employ the search mechanism on the PHP site to search the
"online do***entation (en)" it takes me to Google, which in turn, the
first link that appears inside of Google takes me to a French page
with a different title:
http://us3.php.net/if
Go figure. I click upon the If link inside that page, and it takes me to
the French If as I would expect from that page. But once there I can
change the /fr/ in the address bar to /en/ and I get to the appropriate
English page...
http://us3.php.net/manual/en/language.control-structures.php#control-structures.if
Anyways, my question involves Google specifically.
If I want to search for:
"PHP: if - manual"
how do I get Google to search for this specific string (I only want
exact matches). Google seems to do the things that the other search
engines have done in the past... by changing what I want to find and
throwing up links that I don't need. Specifically this occurs with the
php.net site right at the moment, but in the past Google seems to
drop certain items from the searches, like brackets "[]", parenthesis
"()", semicolons ";", periods ".", commas "," et al. Is there a way to
turn off this mess and get Google to return specific sequences of
characters???
Thanks.
Jim Carlock
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