googleplexed!

[mr. piper]

How on earth do you get google to search for two or more words without giving you examples of the words singularly?

This is an example i haven't tried and it poss doesn't do it in this instance:- when i search for say "Jacob White", numerous things may come up but sometimes it might give you- Jacob Smith..............    White christmas .............

I have tried quotes but to no avail.

anyone understand?

[alunrw]

Try using the + sign - in the example you give try Jacob +smith (no gap between the + and smith)

[alunrw]

or Jacob +white even :-)

[QmunkE]

I'm sure using " " should find you instances where the words are consecutive. Always seems to work for me...

[Dsg]

I agree with the "" option - but also try using the Advanced Search option to the right of the search box.

[twiglet4frog]

i always use "jacob white"

[Mattk]

as stated above,as long as you put quotes either side of your search phrase it will only look for exact matches

[redmug100]

Use Altavista instead.

[Cetti]

'Jacob White' will work.

 Just one comma either side of the phrase. Try it.

[Aschenbach]

Advanced Search and cached pages are useful.

The Answerbank search engine is one of the worst at this. You get 1000+ results if you've written 'the' or something.

[5029]

Go to the advanced search page (http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en)  and use the first box "with all the words"