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I'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

I'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 ago
Exclamation 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 ago
Surely 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 ago
Currently 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 ago
What about the equals sign? =exactstring
dfc 15y ago
Westlaw search syntax would be awesome!!!

jaylevitt 15y ago

Exclamation 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 ago

Surely 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 ago

Currently 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 ago

What about the equals sign? =exactstring

dfc 15y ago

Westlaw search syntax would be awesome!!!