You might find hundreds of millions of results.

Far from what you really want.

Here’s a simple example:

This search brings up several results on Los Angeles riots of 1992.

An illustration of quotation marks made from all of the media and content that you can find through searching the web.

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This search is now almost completely saturated with results about a 2015 movie calledLos Angeles 1991.

This strategy works for words, dates, other phrases, and even entire domain names.

You canfind all kinds of file types through Google, specifically.

Quotation marks search on Google for John Joseph Smith

This is where quotation marks come in.

The above example will ensure that all results include those three words in quotes.

NotjustNobel, Prize, or Winners, but all three, and in that exact order.

Los Angeles 1991 Google search

Lots of websites and apps support this kind of search, including web search engines and social media sites.

But when in doubt, just use quotes to see if it works.

Quotation marks on Google Search for nobel prize winners

Quotation marks used on Google Search with the site command

Quoted Google search for nobel prize winners and PDFs