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Man, back in the day, Google would search for what you typed and nothing else. You could put in whatever words you wanted and it would give you back results with those words and only those words. If you wanted to search only for a literal phrase (where the words you provided appeared consecutively and in the order you gave them) you'd put them in quotes. And Google never strayed from your exact instructions.
Those were good days. I don't think that's a thing any more.
I use DuckDuckGo today, but it sells your info to Microsoft, apparently, so I'm not sure it's really much better than Bing or Google on that score. And the search results are probably objectively worse.
Let's burn the internet to the ground and start over.
You are mixing it up with Altavista. Precision was their way.
Google has always been 'and something else, too'
No, there was a time boolean search was honoured
I use searx.be, I feel like it's better than DDG