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> the answer to that shouldn't be to return results that don't even contain the words searched for.

This is everything that's wrong with search in a single sentence.

First, verbatim mode should actually work when you're sure this is what you want. But as a default I think this would produce bad results.

"What's the name of the plant that that eats flies?"

This should, and does, produce results for Venus Fly Traps but I doubt any useful page contains all of those words.

But why should that return results for Venus Fly Traps? You are search verbattim for the sentence "What's the name of the plant that that eats flies?". I'd say it's a bug to return any result that doesn't have that specific sentence.

If you were searching that sentence without the quotations I could get behind it return Venus Fly Traps results, but if you are using the double quotes you are trying to search for that EXACT string.

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