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how to make a focused search? (normally I get more junk than an answer)

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Even putting search in "quotation mark" the response in my humble opinion is more junk than fact. What techniques are there to be precise? Thank for the help.

Even putting search in "quotation mark" the response in my humble opinion is more junk than fact. What techniques are there to be precise? Thank for the help.

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Depends upon the search engine you are using. Firefox does not have a search engine, it uses multiple varieties of different search engines depending upon the localization the user has installed.

Unless as Phoxuponyou brought up, you are using the Search feature for support.mozilla.org which has its own internal search feature and has its own quirks.

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Is this in regard to searches in Firefox or searches in the Support Forum?

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Depends upon the search engine you are using. Firefox does not have a search engine, it uses multiple varieties of different search engines depending upon the localization the user has installed.

Unless as Phoxuponyou brought up, you are using the Search feature for support.mozilla.org which has its own internal search feature and has its own quirks.

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Thanks for your replies. I normally use Google and, as a novice, surprised by the range of response to a very speciifc, precise definition of content being sought.