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Surely someone internally would have foreseen that? How in the hell was that greenlit.
by monetus 4y ago
Surely 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.
- corobo 4y agoDefinitely 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!