Has Google changed it's format?

I was responding to the "complaint" by the OP I guess. But when I searched for "steroid eye drops" without the quotes every hit I get has "eye" or "eyes" in it.

Can you provide a link to your search?

Google has a different interpretation for the use of double quote marks: If you wrap something in double quote marks, Google search interprets that as "must include" in the results.

Put a minus sign in front of anything you do NOT want to see. For example:

When I tried: It produced advertisements for Dyson, Amazon, and eBay at the top, and nothing that indicated a source of scrap parts.

Reading between your lines, my guess(tm) is that you're looking for a "used Dyson DC24 brush bar motor" as in: Comparing with hits returned by Google, they look very much the same:

This might help determining who they are: It's a proxy filter that forwards its querys to Google search and returns results without recording your IP address. "...Startpage exclusively uses results from Google, which the company pays Google for." It's often cheaper (and easier) to simply repackage search results from Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask, or others. Here's a list of where some popular web piles get their search results:

Suggestion: When I ask for an example, a URL or list of search terms would be helpful.

My post was a long story short & now that Jeff has shown that Startpage is just an overlay of Google, it's all moot. Thanks Jeff.

Thanks Jeff! I had forgotten about

John :-#)#

that's how google used to work. Now it doesn't. The failure of the quotes system has rendered it fairly useless

there's a reason I didn't do that. Think about it.

umm... ebay is the biggest source of used parts on the web

yes

Curious, as I keep getting rather different results

I didn't note them down for you.

NT