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This isn't really the solution we were looking for Matt. Can we replace the + operator with something else? How about¬? We don't use that very often to the po
by brador 15y ago
This isn't really the solution we were looking for Matt.
Can we replace the + operator with something else? How about¬? We don't use that very often to the point I don't even know what it's called, but it's there on the keyboard in one keypress.
- Xuzz 15y agoNot on US keyboards, I don't think.
- nknight 15y agoDepends on your OS. ¬ is a quick alt+l on any Mac. However, it's the symbol for logical negation[1], and thus probably not a great substitute for +. [1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C2%AC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C2%AC
- Natsu 15y agoOn Windows, you have to do Alt+0172 to get a ¬ unless there's some shortcut I don't know offhand.
- hessenwolf 15y agoI've looked all over my German keyboard, with its crazy-assed bracket locations, and I don't see it anywhere.
- bobbles 15y agoMy UK keyboard has it left of the '1' key above the qwerty keys
- hessenwolf 15y agoI have carat and a little circle. The bastards.
- georgemcbay 15y agoSpeak for yourself. I've been wanting this solution for years.
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- Matt_Cutts 15y agoI'll pass the feedback on. Part of the issue with + is that it turned out a lot of people were mistyping queries with + when as far as we could tell, they weren't trying to match an exact word. Getting further off the beaten path with a more rare character might help though.
- jaylevitt 15y agoExclamation point? (!this !word !exactly, !darnit!) Or a double exclamation point if that's still too common... It really was nice to be able to control which words were verbatim and which weren't. Quotes are perfectly logical but just a pain to retrofit onto a query you're refining.
- sc00ter 15y agoSurely simpler soultion would have been to respond to a search for "+this is a +search" with: Showing results for this is a search Search instead for +this is a +search As google does for other "typos". Failing that, a replacement for + would be welcome. I can't imagine many people type, for example ^word or =word - allowing use of a symbol that indicates promotion of that word word in the search terms, they way + did. The difficulty will be reeducating the (presumably quite large number of - even if proportionally a small percentage of googles user base) people who have been using + in searches for the last 10-15 years (I'm almost positive this concept existed in other search engines before google) that + isn't + any more, and please use this other symbol instead.
- bh42222 15y agoCurrently Google offers me the ability to change the background image on the Google home page. How about the ability to use something like Google "classic" with the old way of using the + sign? Hide it as an off-home page selection, that way only people who really want it will choose it. I'd also be interested in something similar for an "advanced search syntax" mode. Probably not very useful for the majority of people, but could be something a minority might be very passionate about.
- mh- 15y agoWhat about the equals sign? =exactstring
- botker 15y agoThat's the symbol for logical negation, which would make it a confusing replacement for +.
- bambax 15y ago> This isn't really the solution we were looking for What? Yes, yes it is. Please don't take it away now!
- Gormo 15y agoThat character is most often used as a logical negation operator, so it may be confusing to use it as a force-inclusion operator for search. It's also almost never found on standard US keyboards, which is why the tilde is often used as a logical negation operator in it's place.