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I want to see in the search results only pages with the phrase "cross fade". Here's what I tried and some results I got:
"cross fade" (surrounded by quotes): received pages with: Crossfade (no space).
"cross fade" - crossfade (i.e. same as above, minus crossfade: cross-fade, 'cross, fade'.
I want to get only the exact phrase.
Google likes to guess what you are searching for and it decides you must be looking for corssfade instead of cross fade :(
(I'm almost getting Clippy flashbacks with that:)
You can overrule Google by doing the following:
I know, it's a pain. You can also add &tbs=li:1 to your search string:
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22cross+fade%22&tbs=li:1
If you make a shortcut to https://www.google.com/search?tbs=li:1 you will start the search with the Verbatim option already set.
(also a source)
Did you mean: "crossfade" at the top? Then this is as close you can get to the "Exact Search" with Google. Google will always take individual words and incorporate them in the search (even if you choose "Exact Search"). You could still combine it with -crossfade (like this but you'll always get mixed results.
Cross fade :( Yeah... you hit on some advanced (defective) mind-reading by the search engines. You could look at the suggestions in the possible duplicate from the comments. With Google the + doesn't work but with Bing you get somewhat better results. But i don't think you can use them to compare to "Crossfade" like you intended.