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A search that delivers results containing my search term and nothing else is pure genius. It's a wonder major search engines never thought of it.

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It is really surprising and somewhat irritating that it is not more common.

No results found is actively optimized against, which raises recall and reduces precision of search results Via synonyms, stop words, etc. the priority of a search engine is to deliver you results because those are actionable even if not fully relevant.

I agree and I like that meta search engines offer fuzzy search matching, because sometimes you know what you want but are not quite sure of the best keywords to use to find it.

I just wish more search engines offered an option or default setting where search results would only include exact matches.

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