Search Engines Silently Drop Query Terms, No Strict All-Terms Mode
Modern search engines increasingly ignore portions of user queries in favor of algorithmic relevance, with no accessible way to enforce exact term matching. Meta-search tools like SearXNG inherit this behavior from upstream engines, making results even less relevant for power users. Manual workarounds like quoting every term are tedious and not discoverable.
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