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I feel nervous about making myself dependent on them because it's more likely than not that Google would pull the rug from under us once we get comfortable with
by kinkrtyavimoodh 8y ago
I feel nervous about making myself dependent on them because it's more likely than not that Google would pull the rug from under us once we get comfortable with using them.
- dekhn 8y agomost of the operators on that table have existed for over ten years and it's unlikely they will be removed.
- nkurz 8y agoWhat give you this confidence? I discovered the list when I was trying to figure out why "link:" was no longer working, after existing for more than a decade. In another comment here, TeMPOraL says that "define:" (which is on the list) doesn't seem to be supported any more. If it's not making money for Google, and it's not necessary for their internal activities, I wouldn't want to depend on any of these to work in the future.
- Rebelgecko 8y agoMost work, but about 1/4 of them don't :(
- dekhn 8y agolink was intentionally removed, I think about a year ago, with some messaging to the community. I would guess it was being abused.
- throwaway12iii 8y agoBy abused you probably meant abused without payment to Google, or abused by people external to Google. People who pay or are Google can continue their abuse.
- na412 8y agoThe + operator was removed despite being there for a long time. Also there's a whole bunch of wrong info in the article. The most blatant one is that they claim google by default performs an AND search, which even a cursory use of google will demonstrate is not true.