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Google Search replaces + operator with quotation marks
- DanBC 15y agoDo they know how frustrating this is for some people? > A particular word might not appear on a page in your results if there is sufficient other evidence that the page is relevant. The evidence might come from language analysis that Google has done or many other sources. For example, the query [ overhead view of the bellagio pool ] will give you nice overhead pictures from pages that do not include the word 'overhead.' The title of the parent is not quite accurate either. Quoting a single word has been there for a while, and has always meant "Do not substitute this word; search for this word exactly". Where + meant "always include this word in the results". I really wish Google had an options page for less 'clever' searching: I want +, I want to "quote phrases", it'd be great if I could bracket some terms, and I don't want any substitutions. And I really don't want any of my terms silently dropped or subbed.