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Hmm, that makes it sound like if I search:

> lyrics "walk down the aisle at the store"

it'll do an inexact phrase search, and if I do:

> lyrics walk down the "aisle" at the "store"

it'll do a normal search but with exact-match for aisle and store.

But in this example, that doesn't appear to be the case - looks like the first example is exact match phrase search?



Yes, that's exactly what it will do. But keep in mind that if you do [lyrics walk down the "aisle" at the "store"] by default we'll probably rank pages that have many of the words adjacent to each other because we can tell those are probably more relevant. That's why you might get the same or similar results to [lyrics "walk down the aisle at the store"] -- and it's why the post suggests not even using quotes at all at first, because we might get things fine without them.




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