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If you're enraged over relocating a "+" prefix to a double quoted word, then you might not want to use a post-2005 version of Microsoft Office...
by laconian 15y ago
If you're enraged over relocating a "+" prefix to a double quoted word, then you might not want to use a post-2005 version of Microsoft Office...
- brigade 15y agoIt was not a relocation; + and "" were not equivalent, and Google has made no effort to replace the functionality they removed.
- groby_b 15y agoquotes on a single word actually _are_ the equivalent of +, AFAIK. I.e if you want foo, bar, quox to be all present on the page you search, the term is <"foo" "bar" "quox"> (minus angle brackets, obviously) I could be wrong, but it seems to work for me.
- DanBC 15y agoIt breaks sometimes. Imagine the name Dan Northern. I search using (without square brackets) ["Dan Northern"] I don't ever want, for that search, to see any results like: ["Dan's Northern"] But I do, sometimes. (Using different names, which I'm not giving here to protect a friend who actually does need protection.) But Google has a handy feedback form, and I report it when it happens, and sometimes it seems to make a difference. I would freaking love to see some of that feedback.
- groby_b 15y agoI assume you did try the "verbatim" search option, right? (Click "more search tools" if it's not on your screen)
- DanBC 15y agoThe numbers of people using + operator correctly were tiny. (1 in 600 people.)
- apenwarr 15y agoIf there are 6 billion people on earth, that's 10 millon of them.
- Drbble 15y agoIt's good to see a Google manager hold that point of view. Do you have any influence in the organization? Or are mchurch's nightmare demons really running the show?
- euyyn 15y agoThe statistic is over the total number of users, not over the total number of human beings, or the total number of human beings that ever existed, or the number of atoms in the universe.
- apenwarr 15y agoWhat percentage of the total number of human beings do you think use Google? I'm not even off by a single order of magnitude.
- thisisnotatest 15y agoI've worked on the query parsing code for google.com, and, I promise you, + and "" were equivalent. (Barring unusual edge cases with ambiguous combinations of punctuation.)
- mistermann 15y agoHa.....I agree with you on MS Office!