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> "verbatim" mode... which looks like it turns off a bunch of search heuristics.

Ugh. This sounds like one of those families of PHP escaping functions: `escape_string()`, `really_escape_string()`, `escape_string_all_the_way()`, `no_really_i_mean_it_this_time_escape_string()`, etc. Google seems to have improved somewhat at fighting SEO spam, but their efforts to "helpfully" change queries have consistently made their service worse.

Verbatim is an improvement , but even with verbatim, it still sometimes ignores your wishes.

omg, live and learn. Is there a list of these somewhere?!