In the past 24 to 48 hours, I have been finding that Google is not
providing me with accurate searches for an Exact Phrase.
I can’t give you a real example, because it involves potential donor
names, but I have done a search on the name “Katherine E. Morrison”
which pulls up 12,900 hits. However, of the first 10 hits, the name
“Katherine E. Morrison” only appears in three of them. So, I
immediately think that the page has changed, so I check the cached
version, which tells me
These terms only appear in links pointing to this page: katherine e morrison
As far as I can tell, Google is currently not searching exact phrases.
I am not entirely clear on what it is searching (maybe all words?). I
have tried this from my google toolbar, from the google mainpage, from
the google advanced page and gotten nowhere.
I usually use Google for searches like
“Kathy and Sam Smith” Springfield MO donor
And the answers I am getting don’t make any sense.
Anyway, I am using Alltheweb.com for now, until this gets cleared up.
Is anyone else having this experience? Have I been assigned to Google
Heck or something? It is kind of like the google version of the TV
show Lost.