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What the heck has happened to Google search?
sajman99:
Ah, thanks for the info guys. So mouser's hard work is paying dividends. :Thmbsup:
It's very nice to now see relevant DC discussion threads show up in Google.
mouser:
yep, posts on the forum are now in google an hour or two after they are made, which is very cool.
ewemoa:
:Thmbsup:
nosh:
Am I really late to the party or did Google just drop the + operator from their search syntax? Is it some bizarre decision related to their Google+ service? (I feel silly even suggesting that.)
I noticed for the first time today when I got this message at the top of the search results:The + operator has been replaced.
To search for an exact word or phrase, use double quotation marks
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So now double quotes signify both "whole phrase search" and "required in results"?
What if I want to include a phrase in my search that doesn't necessarily have to be in the results? How do I frame my search query then? WTF, Google!
Update: OK, I see it is a recent development.
http://www.ditii.com/2011/10/23/google-plus-search-operator-discontinued/
The plus operator was useful for single words and it was intuitive, considering that the minus operator is employed to exclude results that contain a certain word.
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Wasn't simplicity one of the virtues that helped Google become a household name? Looks like it's time to seriously start looking at alternatives.
Stoic Joker:
Update: OK, I see it is a recent development.
http://www.ditii.com/2011/10/23/google-plus-search-operator-discontinued/
The plus operator was useful for single words and it was intuitive, considering that the minus operator is employed to exclude results that contain a certain word.
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Wasn't simplicity one of the virtues that helped Google become a household name? Looks like it's time to seriously start looking at alternatives.-nosh (October 25, 2011, 05:12 AM)
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Great, that'll put a dent in my Google-fu. I frequently do did searches for "this phrase"+"this phrase" ... Now I'm not sure what to use. What a PITA.
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