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Unless I'm misremembering, at some point in the distant past one could use the dot operator between search terms to mean the equivalent of a quoted phrase. So
by redler 15y ago
Unless I'm misremembering, at some point in the distant past one could use the dot operator between search terms to mean the equivalent of a quoted phrase. So
this.phrase
was the equivalent of
"this phrase"
I think it worked with the plus operator as well, so searches like
+this.phrase
provided a nice fluent shorthand. I guess the plus is now headed for status as a reserved symbol for the obvious reason.
- vizsladriver 15y agoYes, I really miss being able to search for new.york or los.angeles, for example. Those terms used to be equivalent to "new york" or "los angeles", but now they are equivalent to the phrases without quotes. I.e. the words no longer have to be next to each other. Also, requiring the quotes is really painful on a mobile browser keyboard.