Ive found it to be inconsistent; used to not work on ddg /bing but worked today for me. Used to work on google but less so nowadays
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drunkosaurus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days agoDo these marks (- for exclusion, + for mandatory) still work on search engines? I thought they stopped entertaining them years ago, exactly because they don’t want the user to mess with SEO results. I know from personal experience that double quotes (to search for an exact expression) are ignored.
jjagaimo@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
Double quotes just get me flagged as a bot every single time on Startpage.
ActuallyGoingCrazy@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Startpage constantly bot flagged me, even just doing normal searches. Just a shitty detector on that one.
themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Not on Google. They work on kagi and I assume they do on DDG/searx etc