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It never worked all that well for me.

What I want is a "curl | grep" for the web. Just something that searches the entire page, including <head> <!--> etc. I can do without fancy semantics.

But Google tries to be smart even on quoted queries. And that annoys me deeply.




>But Google tries to be smart even on quoted queries. And that annoys me deeply.

They're just trying to redirect you to more profitable (i.e., a greater probability that you will impress an ad) search queries.




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