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I find Google annoying to use ever since they removed the AND (+) operator (i.e. that search term MUST be present on the page). Whenever I need a query that in
by Mayzie 9y ago
I find Google annoying to use ever since they removed the AND (+) operator (i.e. that search term MUST be present on the page).
Whenever I need a query that involves the AND, I always have to resort to Bing to get a result. Putting things inside quotation marks in Google doesn't help one bit - they're not a replacement.
Removing features and not replacing them causing irrelevant results is what's degrading Google for me.
- heeen2 9y agoPut the term in quotes to get the same behavior
- Neuron4ger 9y ago"like" "so", or "like so"? Because the latter means that it should be present on the page, as well as in that order. I'm not sure about the former though.
- gmueckl 9y agoThe former forces both "like" and "so" to be present in the result without any further relation between them. It's awkward and unintuitive, but it was specifically introduced when they remapped +.
- kbp 9y agoThis stopped working like this a long time ago; if you put something in quotes, Google will still sometimes return pages that don't include it, or that contain "synonyms" for it. You need to turn on the verbatim option for the old behaviour, I think.
- retailbuyout 9y agoVerbatim has worked for many years.
- zeep 9y agoboth verbatim and the quotes don't act the same as the + operator did
- GordonS 9y agoThis is something else that used to work - but for the past few years it only seems to make it more likely that the search term is in the page. Very annoying :/
- amelius 9y agoI wish somebody would write a "webgrep" tool that does exactly what its name suggests.
- dep_b 9y agoAltavista used to work like that. Even back when Google was still cool I hopped back to good ol' av.com just to find exactly the thing I wanted.
- bsder 9y agoI miss the old cluster graph that AltaVista was rolling out right before they died. I could search something like "trek", see that there were several very different clusters (one big one for science fiction; one big one for outdoors; and a smattering of smaller ones), and select the cluster I wanted to drill down into. That should be even easier to do nowadays. Sadly, that seems to get in the way of irrelevant ad clicks, so nobody seems to have picked it up.