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I use quotes for exact phrases, when I see my results returning a lot of things out of the order of what I'm looking for. I use (or used to use) + to strictly
by bittermang 15y ago
I use quotes for exact phrases, when I see my results returning a lot of things out of the order of what I'm looking for.
I use (or used to use) + to strictly require a single word in my results, when I notice for some odd reason my results seemed to have skipped that word entirely. Conversely, and it appears this still works, I use - to strip out words that are clogging up my results.
- adhipg 15y agoI have always found that double quotes were good enough to specify inclusion and I did always use '-' to specify omission. Thinking about that, I do now get your use case. Can Google try and make + a double operator? We know that G+ only allows you to have your real names on your profiles and the '+' for G+ is to specify a person. Maybe Google will treat the '+' as a G+ only if it has a relevant profile to show and otherwise leave it like it is?
- jaylevitt 15y agoThat actually seems like something that Google should be good at. In "The Plex", they talk at great length about the bigram/trigram problem (New vs. New York vs. New York Times) and the context of deciding when you're searching for a person versus a term.