Why do the "verbatim search" feature in Google often produce many more hits than a "plain" simple search?

We are used to Google being perfect, so when it doesn't seem to work perfectly, it can send people crazy. It could be a genuine bug in the way it's searching, or alternatively in way it shows the results count.

The other possibility is that by using verbatim you are bypassing any intelligent filters that are used to return more relevant results or to avoid duplicates and search engine spam, so these are included and increase the results count.

In any case "read" is not the same as [verbatim] read which is how Google seem to explain it, but nor is it the same as simply 'read', I have tried all three and the actual results you get are different, and so are the number of results. "read" may differ form [verbatim] read in that "read" states that the exact phrase must be included in the document returned, whilst [verbatim] read might show pages that link to or from another page containing the exact phrase 'read' (this is already the case with a standard search for 'read'; the result may not actually contain the word or even a directly related word at all).

This is all quite confusing, especially when Google don't seem to have provided any information about it other than to imply that using the verbatim button is the same as using quotation marks, which is clearly not the case. I think it is a genuine error either in the way Google have explained it, or in the actual implementation of the feature. It does give an interesting insight about how complex Google's search algorithms really are though!

To me a verbatim search when included in inverted commas should give results solely on what is searched for. Google seem to think that verbatim means results from any single word or combination of words within the script is fine. Why even bother listing a verbatim search when the results are exactly the same as an open search? Unfortunately Google generally supplies the best results of the search engines I've tried so unfortunately I keep returning to it. I do wish that they would remedy this though.

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