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Why does a Google search with quotes sometimes deliver more results than the same search without it

From: SISTRIX Team 18.01.2022 Google-Index, Google-Bot and the Crawling Process What is the Google Everflux? Robots meta tag vs. robots.txt: what are the main differences? What is an HTTP referrer? Our web site is no longer in the index - have we lost our rankings? What is a User-Agent? What is Google Search Console and How To Get Started Web Crawlers: How do They Work? Changing Google Search through Entities What is the X-Robots-Tag? What is the Mobile First Index? Rich Snippets: What are the advantages? Can the Google-Bot fill out and crawl forms? Crawl Budget: What does this mean? These are the CTR's For Various Types of Google Search Result Crawling and Indexing for extensive websites Google SERP Features: Result Types in the Search Results Why does the amount of indexed pages fluctuate so much? How can I quickly get a new page into Google's index? Why does a blocked, noindex URL show up in the search results? Is a website with and without the www harmful? Shelf space optimisation on Google Find out how many pages of a domain are indexed by Google The consequences of negative user-signals on Google's rankings Why am I getting different values for indexed pages in the Google search, the GSC and SISTRIX? How can I remove a URL on my website from the Google Index? Back to overviewA Google search can be made with different search operators. The quotation mark-operator: [ “keyword” ] can be used to search or filter for a specific word or sentence. In this case we talk about an “exact match.” When you put a word or phrase in quotes, the results will only include pages with the same words in the same order as the ones inside the quotes. Only use this if you’re looking for an exact word or phrase, otherwise you’ll exclude many helpful results by mistake.Google Online Help When you use the exact match search operator, the number of search results usually become smaller as you are filtering and restricting the results in the first place. Sometimes, however, it may happen that a Google search with the quotation mark operator [ “keyword” ] delivers more results than the same search without it [ keyword ].Comparison of a search for [opel astra] with and without the search operator exact match In our example, a Google search with the quotation mark operator (exact match) for [ “opel astra” ] returns more results than the same search request without the quotation marks [opel astra].

Exact match search queries will sometimes dig “ deeper” into the index

Google explains this phenomenon by stating that exact match search requests sometimes make them look deeper in their index. This is done to ensure that the searcher is shown as many search results that meet his search criteria as possible. In a few cases, this actually may happen because of the way we fetch results for you. With the high volume of sites available to search, Google separates its index into tiers so that more relevant documents can be refreshed at a higher rate. If you use quotations, we will search through more of the tiers to find as many results that fit your specific search. That means that it’s possible for a search with quotations to dig deeper than a similar search without, and potentially return a higher number of results because of it.Kousha Navidar, Community Manager, Google Search Google separates its massive index into several layers, which are also known as TIERs. Because of the multiple levels of the index, Google can update more relevant documents at higher speeds (Cue: Google Caffeine Update). When you use the quotation mark operator within a search it can happen that Google searches through multiple levels of their index in order to deliver the best “exact” search results. This deeper level search through the index may occasionally find more qualified results than with a “regular” search of the index, without the exact match search request.

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