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DAE get better web results by searching the exact phrase someone said, in quotes?
I was at a supply house in Charlotte a couple weeks ago and some old guy behind me in line said the paint wasn't sticking because the wall was 'sweating like a glass of tea.' I googled that exact phrase in quotes that night, not because I needed paint help, but just to see what would come up. Turns out people on old forum threads use the same words to describe the same problem, and one post from 2009 laid out the fix in three sentences. Google's normal results gave me nothing but product pages and a bunch of stuff about actual tea. I tried it again with a weird thing a client said about her sink ('water hammer ghost') and got straight to a plumbing thread with the answer. Has anyone else had luck quoting the exact words a person says instead of typing what you think the problem is called?
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robin7775d ago
Quoting exact words works fine when the person said something specific, but you got lucky twice and now you're acting like it's a rule. Half the time the exact phrase people use is useless because Google just pulls up whatever page happens to have those words, not the page with the right answer. "Sweating like a glass of tea" hit because old forum guys talk like old forum guys, so the words match the old threads. Try quoting what a normal person says today and you'll get nothing but junk and ads. The real skill is knowing which words are worth quoting and which ones are just noise.
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