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Really? Naively, I was still continuing to put my "queries in quotes" and using + and - to refine my search. When did it stopped being supported?
by muxator 9y ago
Really? Naively, I was still continuing to put my "queries in quotes" and using + and - to refine my search.
When did it stopped being supported?
- johndoe489 9y agoMy bad. I could swear it was removed at some point but I can't find articles. A quick test reveals maybe the change is that you can't do an exact "ascii" search, ie. google searches for an exact sequence of words, but the casing may be different , there-may-be-dashes and so on.
- redtuesday 9y agoTo use the plus sign like behaviour you now need to use quotes (since 2011). Instead of: mars +landings +failures you now have to do: mars “landings” “failures” Source: https://searchengineland.com/google-sunsets-search-operator-98189 https://searchengineland.com/google-sunsets-search-operator-...
- brians 9y agoWhen Google Plus was big. 2011? Quotes still work, and also have an effect like +