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Actually they fucked it up when they started messing with the perfectly working +,- operands.

• DanBC 13y ago
  + might have worked perfectly, but most people didn't use it, and of those who did use it most used it incorrectly. (http://insidesearch.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/search-using-your-terms-verbatim.html http://insidesearch.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/search-using-your...) > we found that users typed the “+” operator in less than half a percent of all searches, and two thirds of the time, it was used incorrectly. Check my arithmetic but that means only 1 in 600 searches used + correctly; 2 in 600 used it wrong, and the other 597 searches didn't use it at all.
  • hexley 13y ago
    That's what they say, but it's strange disappearance directly around the time of Google+ says otherwise.