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In the past, we provided users with the “+” operator to help you search for specific terms. However, we found that users typed the “+” operator in less than hal
by espeed 15y ago
In the past, we provided users with the “+” operator to help you search for specific terms. However, we found that users typed the “+” operator in less than half a percent of all searches, and two thirds of the time, it was used incorrectly. A couple of weeks ago we removed the “+” operator, encouraging the use of the double quotes, which are more likely to be used correctly.
Actually, Google decided to repurpose the + operator for Google Plus Pages Direct Connect (http://www.google.com/support/plus/bin/answer.py?hl=en&p=direct_connect&answer=1711199 http://www.google.com/support/plus/bin/answer.py?hl=en&p...).
- notatoad 15y agothat may have had something to do with it, but i think you can probably trust the official sources that it really wasn't used much and was often used incorrectly. i've met more than a few old people who had been told at some point that they always needed to put plus signs between words instead of spaces, no matter what.