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But I have always used double quotation marks, am I the only one?
by TobbenTM 15y ago
But I have always used double quotation marks, am I the only one?
- tadfisher 15y agoNope. I always assumed exact matching was simply broken.
- Krylez 15y agoNope. I haven't used + since Lycos and co. Now - is a different story altogether.
- ineedtosleep 15y agoAlways used it for phrases of two or more words and around a year ago started using it for specifically worded single words since Google likes to autocorrect me. I always assumed it did what the + did, but never had definitive proof.
- LarrySDonald 15y agoI've assumed quotes meant one or more words were wanted in that order, not as keywords ("to be or not to be" = I don't mean a lot of documents including all those words, but rather that exact phrase) whereas + meant that particular word or phrase had to be in the page (melting abs +plastic = I'm not concerned with placement, but the term "plastic" has to be explicitly mentioned on the page, not related from another page, as I'm wanting to melt ABS plastic as opposed to reshape my abdominals). I considered + as the opposite of -, which is usually the easier way to narrow something down (melting abs -muscle -workout). Oh well..
- joe_the_user 15y agoAnd I believe that this was how it used to operator.
- joe_the_user 15y agoI have used +"a phrase" and gotten a different result from just "a phrase" combined with other words on a number of occasions. It was part of my search strategy for complex information. This just dumbmifies Google search a little more...
- mtkd 15y agoIt's like a bad dream, I used it daily to filter results. Why would they obsolete that?
- oinksoft 15y agoBecause they want to give competitors an opening~
- curiouskat 15y agoIt may be related to the +1 stuff, or they may need to clear the way so it can be used for a new purpose.