Comments by "EebstertheGreat" (@EebstertheGreat) on "Mental Outlaw" channel.

Quotations do work as intended. The problem is that the way they are intended to work is not obvious to most people. Quotation marks just group words together into a single string. But that doesn't mean that exact string has to appear in the text of the page. Similarly, if you just search for a single word, that doesn't mean that word has to appear in the text of the page. Google will check the page's text, title, URL, and backlinks for that same string. Note that this is different from the way it worked about 15 years ago, when putting even a single term in quotes meant you needed an exact match (disregarding spell-checking, etc.). If you want to ensure a given word or phrase is in the page's text, you have to use the intext operator. For instance, the query <intext:"bar foo"> will only match pages that contain the exact string "bar foo" somewhere in their text. Occasionally you might not be able to find the text in there, e.g. if it's hidden behind a button or something, but it will be there. I haven't had any problems with this method. If you want multiple strings to all be in the text, you can use intext as many times as you like, or you can use allintext. For instance, the query <allintext:foo bar "hello world"> will only match pages that contain the strings "foo", "bar", and "hello world" in their text. There are also other similar operators you can use, like inurl, intitle, inanchor, filetype, and many more. These work great, and they are over 15 years old, but they just aren't widely known. By the way, many old operators like +, AND, and OR no longer do anything at all and haven't for quite a while.
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@SqualidsargeStudios "you do realize most of the world doesn’t use the rejected bits cast off from the metric system right?" Well, . . . yes they do. Every country out there is using minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years. Those aren't metric. Neither are degrees of arc, nor decibels, nor nautical miles, nor oil barrels. And if you want to be really specific and insist that the "metric system" encompasses only the SI (as some people do), then people also use degrees Celsius, liters, tonnes, hectares, watt-hours, ampere-hours, atmospheres, various units of currency, and numerous other non-SI units. I get that most countries have metricated and don't use English-based units anymore (or rarely use them), but that doesn't mean they literally only use metric units for anything.
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@-_Somebody_ Yes, it would be better if everyone used the same system of units. And I agree it doesn't matter too much which system it is, though obviously at this point it's got to be metric, since that's nearly universal. But if instead English units were universal, then I'd say we should all stick with that, even though I like metric units much more. And in fairness, the U.S. government and schools have tried multiple times to metricate. The average people don't really care though, which I sort of get.
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@michaelgreen3036 The US makes all kind of stuff, which forces various industries to use US units. I don't just mean random stuff like TV and shoe sizes that get measured in inches and barleycorns, respectively. I mean stuff like machine tools, airplane components, type, construction equipment, and much more. You would be surprised how much international industry uses US units either due to the influence of the American market or American manufacturing or both. Apart from that, some old units are based on tradition or longstanding international agreements that are slow to change. For instance, most places continue to use American units for navigating in airplanes even when that wouldn't be strictly necessary. And ships typically still report distances in nautical miles, as do international treaties regarding the sea. The unit of typography is still the "point," and the height of horses is still measured in hands. And on and on.
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