I want to search Google for documentation on a method called format-date that I'm seeing in my team's codebase.  From Google's Advanced Search page, when I wrap format-date in quotes and Google for it (i.e. format-date), I expect the search to return only results with that exact string match.  When I in fact do this, that's not what I see.  The hyphen seems to be confusing the search engine, because SERP include results for things like format date, format.date, and even format's date.I've tried escaping the hyphen by searching for format\-date, but no joy.I've also tried using the Verbatim option under the Tools dropdown, also with no success:When I say format-date, I want exactly that.  How do I achieve this?
How to actually see exact match search results in Google? Double quotes not working
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