For me Google "verbatim" is the best way to get focussed results although it's too bad it doesn't allow date ranges. Bing search with appropriate use of guotes, + and - operators and date ranges usually beats non-verbatim Google search, and it can sometimes be better than Google verbatim.
The verbatim mode is exactly what most people here are missing. But, for some reason, it's something that can't be configured - you need to set it in every new search. Three freaking clicks.
I don't understand what goes on corporations. I guess power users aren't a target demographic anymore.
I’m suspecting that they generate results from statistics ahead of time and just serve you the closest cached result, unless it is strictly necessary to do an actual search.
> For me Google "verbatim" is the best way to get focussed results although it's too bad it doesn't allow date ranges.
One word of caution: I use verbatim mode and I regularly (but not always) get Wikipedia clones as my top result. It must be skipping some of their anti-spam filtering.
