Can't find a Search Engine for EXACT phrase search.

Hello. I was wondering if anyone here can help me. For a long time, I have been looking for a search engine that will give me true exact phrase search results.

What I mean is, if I search for: "eLephant"

I want search results that ONLY have the word "eLephant", written exactly like that. NOT "elephant"; not "Elephant"; not "ELEPHANT"; etc.

This is just an example. My biggest problems with Google come from this issue. I try to search for something specific and no matter how many quotation marks and -minus symbols I put in, it will never search for exactly the punctuation of the word(s) I'm looking for. It's even worse when I try to search for punctuation marks instead of words.

Neither Google, nor Yahoo, nor Bing, nor Duckduckgo, nor even this "exactseek.com" I found do this at all.

If anyone can help or point me in the right direction, I would appreciate it.

 

If you don't mind me asking why do you need this exact search? Most search implementations, even the internal / facet searches using Solr / Lucene / ElasticSearch would try to use lowercase for indexing and queries.

 

There are many legitimate situations where one would like SE that answer your questions and not try to interpret what you want and serve advertising. For example, historical research, genealogy, literature, work on branding, CRO (when you try to determine if capital letters have an influence on your conversion) ...

As far as I know, there are no simple solution. My best suggestion is to capture the raw results from G, transfer them into a database and then extract the wheat from the chaff with database tools.

 

Thanks, aramyus.

I am just sick and tired of Google trying to be "smart" and giving me search results for things I totally did not type in. I don't understand why it is that no SE can actually give proper search results.

 

I don't understand you point, and it doesn't even make sense. One thing for sure though, this same goes to every search engines out there not only Google.
Plus, don't make simple things so complicated.

 

I don't understand how my question makes no sense or is complicated. I want to find search results for "XyZ/" and no search engine is able to do this.

 

AtomInAHaystack.com is good for doing this.

 

You can also use Google's intext: operator. For example, type intext:"Phrase to search for" into the search box. In the list of results, the phrase will be highlighted. Then search the list for an exact match; you can use a browser extension such as Regex Search which looks for matches on the current page.

And for more ideas, I recommend this page:
webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/19673/is-there-a-way-to-search-in-google-using-regular-expressions-regex

 

Oh! Hope this could help:
Use site: Only Searches the pages of the site.
use " " Searches for the exact phrase, not each of the words separately.
Use - Excludes this term from the search.
use ~ will search related words, such as 'higher education' and 'university'.
Use .. Shows all results from within the designated timerange.

E.g: site:nytimes.com ~college "test scores" -SATs 2008..2010

Source from Infographic: Get More Out Of Google

 

I believe search engine will cater to you the nearest and close queries to your search word/s.

 

Exact Search VS Sorta Search
Indexers are piss poor at real search.
To do exact search like I do.. the incoming data needs to be Fixed a little
eg.. Add a space to the beginning and end of each input line
Change multiple spaces and tabs to 1 space
Then you do the search and Hi-lite ... You need hi-lite to really see the results best.

To make this search faster... I merge all the .txt .htm and other text formats into 1 HUGE file
The name of each file is contained in this biggie ... so it is easy to go to the original document if needed...

This app can be used for language translation.. ie find a exact phrase ...
the next line of the data.. contains the link to the mp3 audio... / translation etc
A 2nd set of lines can contain the other language..

 

Apparently you CANNOT read. The OP STATED that he is ALREADY doing these things.

Therefore your whole post is SPAM.

 

Bing search is best for you.

 

In Google, you can surround your search query with quotes for exact phrase search. Not sure if it's case sensitive though.

 

When you want to search for an exact phrase, you should enclose the entire phrase in quotation marks. This tells Google to search for the precise keywords in the prescribed order.

 

What you are looking for is not an exact-phrase search, it's a case-specific search. They are hard to find, but a decade or so ago they did exist in some form. You'll have to check around for case-specific searches by using the keyword "case-specific" in the various search engines and see if you can find any. Good Luck!

 

Do you always wait SEVEN YEARS before you answer questions for people? The OP has not been on DP since October 2014 and is therefore VERY unlikely to see the answer you waited SEVEN YEARS to post.