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Google modified the algorithm a while back to ignore such flags at times.
by tolbish 6y ago
Google modified the algorithm a while back to ignore such flags at times.
- BlueTemplar 5y agoThankfully, using a WorldWideWeb search engine for this is only necessary for the somewhat rare websites whose own search engines suck.
- emptyfile 6y agoThey did a bad job then, since they still work.
- tolbish 6y agoThey still use the flags, just not in every instance. I recall the quotes for inclusion of strings and the "-site" flag failing for me as early as last year.
- gpvos 5y agoI thought that was several years ago already? Anyway, on Duckduckgo it still works.
- edgyquant 6y agoYes they do ignore those but at this moment they don’t ignore site: queries. Google also suffers heavily from old content, and even changing the date under the tools section doesn’t work for some reason. I think because it goes by when the page was last updated and sites like Reddit update them automatically very frequently