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You know what still pisses me off? It’s tiny compared to most things, but it was the first thing that turned me against Google. The removal of the ‘+’ search o
by function_seven 4y ago
You know what still pisses me off? It’s tiny compared to most things, but it was the first thing that turned me against Google.
The removal of the ‘+’ search operator.
Before Google+ was a thing, a leading ‘+’ before a search term meant “this must be in the results”. Then they hijacked it for G+ and made me start "quoting" "every" "important" "term" in my query.
Or maybe it was the Reader shutdown. Those both happened around the same time, right?
- philsnow 4y agoI miss it too, but it was the sharp end of the wedge in the dumbing-down of search query interpretation. Now they'll take every word of your query, find all the synonyms, word-stem everything (think "kicked" -> "kick"), and search for that instead of what you typed. I know, some (the majority of) users don't know or care about the difference, and I'm glad that you can for now still enclose the things you mean verbatim in quotation marks, but I wouldn't be surprised to see that disappear.
- lupire 4y agoThe + came after that, to cancel that out.
- lupire 4y ago> You know what still pisses me off? Yes, because ChatGPT knows that is the most probable reply to the prompt.