Tell HN: Add nfpr=1 in Google for exact match instead of quotes

3 points

3 years ago

I just searched for "ZeroNVS" (a recent research project someone shared on twitter) and Google returns results for "Zero VS" instead.

https://www.google.com/search?q=ZeroNVS

Does this even if I added double or triple quotes.

https://www.google.com/search?q="ZeroNVS"

    Showing results for Zero VS
    Search instead for ZeroNVS

Now I expect that when I click the suggested link, it will add quotes around ZeroNVS. But now it adds a param "nfpr=1" in URL to search exactly what I wrote.

It looks like nfpr=1 is old thing when I look it up. e.g. this 2014 link https://forums.opera.com/topic/1652/o20-adding-nfpr-1-to-google and this greasmonkey script which is suppose to resolve this https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/5195-google-searches-exactly-what-you-type

I am not sure if google will keep ignoring quotes for everything from now on or was it just for this search. This is not a very nice behaviour anyway.