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Interestingly enough, the example from the post doesn't work anymore: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=_maxint http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=_maxint
by pluies 15y ago
Interestingly enough, the example from the post doesn't work anymore:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=_maxint http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=_maxint
Gives "Showing results for MAXINT. Search instead for _MAXINT." Clicking on the second link still searches for MAXINT. You have to use +_MAXINT as the search query for the search to work (and it's not even case-sensitive).
Maybe Google treats underscores the same way as hyphens now that it's mainstream and the majority of people don't really care about the semantic distinction between the two? The post is 6 years old after all.
- Dylan16807 15y agoGoogle's precision has been going downhill. Even adding + isn't enough anymore. Try searching for the phrase "everything wrong" in quotes. Google will insist on including "everything's wrong" no matter how many + symbols you sprinkle around. If you exacerbate the problem with [["everything wrong" crossfade]] you get 36 thousand results to bing's accurate 64.
- scottbruin 15y agoIt looks like "_maxint" works as a search query? http://www.google.com/search?q=%22_maxint%22 http://www.google.com/search?q=%22_maxint%22