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Hmm what do you mean by could? It’s not possible anymore? So far it seems to be still there.
by nazka 4y ago
Hmm what do you mean by could? It’s not possible anymore? So far it seems to be still there.
- PeterisP 4y agoIIRC not really, at least some times it will still return documents that do not have the exact "+'ed" term in it.
- manholio 4y ago"-" still works, "+" was bastardized when Google launched Google+ but you can get similar functionality by surrounding your term in quotes, preventing it to be dropped.
- gandalfgreybeer 4y ago“-“ works but I’ve seen it fail so many times that I’m more surprised when it actually filters it properly nowadays.
- dreen 4y ago- works, quoting a word was the same as +
- unicornporn 4y agoThis is the right answer and I was under the impression that this was in the the Google fu crash course these days.
- breakingcups 4y ago- doesn't work for pinterest
- strken 4y agoWhen I enter the exact string "bed design ideas" into google images it includes pinterest results, while "bed design ideas -pinterest" excludes them. Is there a specific failure case for you?
- Xelbair 4y ago-site:pinterest.com works perfectly, and i use it in my all queries where i search for images.
- appleflaxen 4y agoThis should be the default, TBH. Why google thinks that an image search leading to pinterest is going to be helpful is beyond comprehension.
- rasz 4y ago>Why google thinks that an image search leading to pinterest is going to be helpful is beyond comprehension. Both founder/ex ceo and current ceo came from Google. Pinterest directly deposits >$xxxmil/quarter into google.
- iggldiggl 4y agoIf the original source is still online I indeed prefer it, but occasionally some images of interest only survive on Pinterest, in which case a Pinterest result is better than nothing. Another thing is probably how images are indexed in the first place. Historically image search could only look at the text surrounding the image (and the alt-text, if provided) to get some sort of tenuous idea what an image was about. Pinterest provides some additional tags for each image, which can help make it more discoverable. Of course these days Google also runs image recognition (and OCR) on the images it indexes, but I suppose sometimes the tags added by Pinterest still provide some additional context without which the original image wouldn't have been found.
- danaris 4y agoI've found that sometimes I have to also exclude specific "*.pinimg.com" (or something similar; don't recall the domain for certain offhand) domains, especially when doing an image search.
- shever73 4y agoI use two Chrome extensions “Unpinterested!” for Google and “Not Pinterested” for Ecosia that both remove Pinterest’s search engine effluent from results.
- jdefelice 4y agoIt doesn't work as it once did, Google will still ignore +keyword, It broke with the introduction of Google's social platform Google+
- monetus 4y agoSurely someone internally would have foreseen that? How in the hell was that greenlit.
- jlampa 4y agoThey have foreseen it, and the plus sign was replaced by quotation marks.
- jonathanstrange 4y agoI thought these meant something else: +: the term following must be in the text (but may be stemmed) "": search for exactly this phrase (not stemmed) So for example: +hiking => a term like hike, hiking, hiker, etc. must be on the page +"hiking" => the string "hiking" must be on the page "hiking" trekking outdoor => look for the string "hiking" and preferably return results that contain it, though hits for trekking and outdoor (stemmed) suffice But apparently I'm wrong, and "" and + don't mean that any longer?
- dannysullivan 4y ago+ hasn't been an operator for years with us now. Quotes mean find the exact term indicated, no stemming, nothing -- just an exact match.
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- jacquesm 4y agoThat's about as user unfriendly as it gets. Such things work their way into your muscle memory and to annoy 100% of your power users for some social media play that has nothing to do with search is textbook monopolistic behavior.
- slazaro 4y agoIt just happened to me, where I added a "-word" term to narrow it down and the number of results increased somehow. That means that they're doing something behind the scenes that's not as simple as "remove all results that contain "word".
- dannysullivan 4y agoI work for Google Search. Yes, totally agree, it's weird when the count goes up. It's something I hope we can fix. But it's not because we ignored the - symbol. It's because the counts are very fast, rough estimates. And when you go into additional pages, we start to refine them. IE: we actually found more than the count displayed on the first page.
- tomrod 4y ago> I work for Google Search A tangent. You have what I imagine is a hard job and, despite the many threads here about recent apparent quality decreases, the product brings enormous value to its users. Thanks for taking the time to discuss in this thread, it is very helpful to see your insights.
- dannysullivan 4y agoThank you. Forum discussions here and in other places are really useful ways to gather feedback. It directly drove the improvement we launched this week.
- lupire 4y agoThe "number" of results doesn't mean anything beyond a rough guess. it's an ad promlting the size of the index. You'll never be able to reach nearly all of them.