This is terrible news to me. Like a lot of people here, I believe the reason is that they will roll up some social feature that may involve using the plus sign

This is terrible news to me. Like a lot of people here, I believe the reason is that they will roll up some social feature that may involve using the plus sign the same way it is used on Google+, but still, it makes things less convenient to me. I just wrote that thing[1] that I'm running on my localhost, so I can search google the "old" way. I made it as my default search engine in Chrome, so it's transparent. This will not suit everyone's needs, but I'd rather share it anyway. [1]: https://gist.github.com/1305438 https://gist.github.com/1305438