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They have foreseen it, and the plus sign was replaced by quotation marks.
by jlampa 4y ago
They have foreseen it, and the plus sign was replaced by quotation marks.
- jonathanstrange 4y agoI thought these meant something else: +: the term following must be in the text (but may be stemmed) "": search for exactly this phrase (not stemmed) So for example: +hiking => a term like hike, hiking, hiker, etc. must be on the page +"hiking" => the string "hiking" must be on the page "hiking" trekking outdoor => look for the string "hiking" and preferably return results that contain it, though hits for trekking and outdoor (stemmed) suffice But apparently I'm wrong, and "" and + don't mean that any longer?
- dannysullivan 4y ago+ hasn't been an operator for years with us now. Quotes mean find the exact term indicated, no stemming, nothing -- just an exact match.
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- jacquesm 4y agoThat's about as user unfriendly as it gets. Such things work their way into your muscle memory and to annoy 100% of your power users for some social media play that has nothing to do with search is textbook monopolistic behavior.
- corobo 4y agoDefinitely their jump the shark moment for me. I know people (me included if I'm truly honest with myself) are still peeved about Reader but Google Plus was the Search service's sharkjump for me I think. Don't teach me how to use your engine perfectly for 20 years then change it for some half baked social thing lmao. I hope someone got a pisstake massive raise off it so it was at least worth something to someone!