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Yes, but this is a terrible hack. Double quotes originally meant "The phrase exactly as I typed it". When Google+ came along, they stole the plus operator and g

• stcredzero 8y ago
  I've been online since Google was a new up and coming company. There is a world of difference between the civic mindedness of Google back then and Google now. Google has gone from something genuinely idealistic, to something scary and totalitarian. If you aren't of the same "tribe" as the typical Googler, then basically, you're a subject. Granted, the amount of UI they are carrying along with them is much larger, but the attitude of Google with regards to existing users has gone from really cool to downright disdainful. If you aren't a 20-something or barely 30-something techie, they think you should just go along and acknowledge their intellectual superiority. What you want either agrees with what they want, or is misguided.
• pas 8y ago
  for me it does the exact phrase match thing. as it always did. and the + did the same thing as far as I remember. (sibling comments point out that somehow the + allowed a bit of flexibility - but that's what google does by default, so I sort of understand that people want a better search engine, but I still don't know what + did that was so magical.)
  • gmueckl 8y ago
    + forced the presence of the following word, but multiple + operators did not force a specific relationship between the keywords. And google massages input keyeords a bit. A typo in combination with the +operator might have been corrected. With the multiple meanings of the double quotes this is not possible without being inconsistent.