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As bad as Google is it was worse a year or two
ago when it abolished phrase searches and broke
up a phrase into individual words destroying
the search.

Bing has currently revoked phrase searches
so it is no longer possible to find a phrase
from literature on Bing. Perhaps Microsoft
(Bing) did this in an under the table deal
with Alphabet (Google).

duckduckgo.com, not really an alternative, is based
on Google, so when Google downgrades their searches
so does duckduckgo.com, and they
have also returned to phrase searches.

I wouldn't be surprised if duckduckgo.com was
run by Google itself to spy on "private"
searches. Is there any doubt that the
founders of Google would do such a scanless
thing? It's not like the Law is doing
anything against illegal collusion in business.

Phrase searches are important when searching for
things, like phrases in literature.

It would be so nice if "tech" companies
actually competed with each other rather
than illegally colluding to prevent
newcomers into "their" web search field.

Amazon also appears to be in a political
partnership with Google, as a few years
ago while searching for censorship on
Amazon I could only get results on Bing,
weak mis-leading results, but better than
nothing. But Bing has now perhaps downgraded to
appease it's under the table partners amazon
and google.