I was looking in frustration for something using " " and could not fins the exact phrase..... without these though I could not find what I was looking for, because there were many pages that had those words on them but were nowhere near each other...

I realised that it would be very beneficial to have a function that instead of searching for a specific phrase... having something that searched for a group of words occurring NEAR each other.... (maybe a default 20 word berth, if not specified somehow?"

I did some research and apparently AltaVista used to have something like this but they didn't include it in one of their updates. Does google have anything like this? If not i think it would be a valuable tool.......