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It 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 ago
Surely someone internally would have foreseen that? How in the hell was that greenlit.
- jlampa 4y ago
  They have foreseen it, and the plus sign was replaced by quotation marks.
  - jonathanstrange 4y ago
    I 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 ago
    That'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.
    - corobo 4y ago
      Definitely their jump the shark moment for me. I know people (me included if I'm truly honest with myself) are still peeved about Reader but Google Plus was the Search service's sharkjump for me I think. Don't teach me how to use your engine perfectly for 20 years then change it for some half baked social thing lmao. I hope someone got a pisstake massive raise off it so it was at least worth something to someone!
dannysullivan 4y ago
I work for Google Search. It works exactly the same as + did. We don't ignore the terms that are quoted. That was the point ofvthe change we made, that because the quoted terms weren't sometimes in snippets, it might seem like we were ignoring when we weren't. Hopefully this change will help.
- mongol 4y ago
  I hope Google can bring back the plus operator, as Google+ is now buried.
  - yreg 4y ago
    Quotes do the exact same thing that + did back then.
- wildmanx 4y ago
  I've used quoted searches now and then in the past, as recently as last week or so, and it definitely did not work. There were no usable results, none of the results shown did contain the exact words. Is there a bug somewhere?
  - dannysullivan 4y ago
    If you have an example you're comfortable sharing, I'm happy to take a look with the team (I work for Google Search). It's designed to match content as described in the post.
    - cobbaut 4y ago
      Search "xaverius franciscus" Only one of the first six results contains the exact phrase, the others all have other characters between these two words. Search +"napoloen" And it insists on including napoleon. Please include an 'expert' mode or something for people who know what they are looking for.
      - 4y ago

monetus 4y ago

Surely someone internally would have foreseen that? How in the hell was that greenlit.

jlampa 4y ago
They have foreseen it, and the plus sign was replaced by quotation marks.
- jonathanstrange 4y ago
  I 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.
    - deleted 4y ago
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- jacquesm 4y ago
  That'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.
  - corobo 4y ago
    Definitely their jump the shark moment for me. I know people (me included if I'm truly honest with myself) are still peeved about Reader but Google Plus was the Search service's sharkjump for me I think. Don't teach me how to use your engine perfectly for 20 years then change it for some half baked social thing lmao. I hope someone got a pisstake massive raise off it so it was at least worth something to someone!

dannysullivan 4y ago

I work for Google Search. It works exactly the same as + did. We don't ignore the terms that are quoted. That was the point ofvthe change we made, that because the quoted terms weren't sometimes in snippets, it might seem like we were ignoring when we weren't. Hopefully this change will help.

mongol 4y ago
I hope Google can bring back the plus operator, as Google+ is now buried.
- yreg 4y ago
  Quotes do the exact same thing that + did back then.
wildmanx 4y ago
I've used quoted searches now and then in the past, as recently as last week or so, and it definitely did not work. There were no usable results, none of the results shown did contain the exact words. Is there a bug somewhere?
- dannysullivan 4y ago
  If you have an example you're comfortable sharing, I'm happy to take a look with the team (I work for Google Search). It's designed to match content as described in the post.
  - cobbaut 4y ago
    Search "xaverius franciscus" Only one of the first six results contains the exact phrase, the others all have other characters between these two words. Search +"napoloen" And it insists on including napoleon. Please include an 'expert' mode or something for people who know what they are looking for.
    - 4y ago