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I like slash tags and Booleans, but the truth is search should work with out the need for those things. We support - to make things go away. Later we will expos
by drakaal 14y ago
I like slash tags and Booleans, but the truth is search should work with out the need for those things. We support - to make things go away. Later we will expose some of the cooler things we do behind the scenes like "reviews" or "instructional" or "oped" searches, or "Simple English" but we want to do that in a way that doesn't require syntax.
"If it requires syntax it isn't user friendly" is our internal battle cry.
- greglindahl 14y agoYeah, it's definitely the case that users don't want to learn or type syntax in a search engine -- Daniel Russell of Google says that a majority of searchers think they are advanced users of search engines, but a majority of them don't know about or use "" or -. That's why blekko and izik both invoke that syntax "under the hood", automatically -- starting in November 2011.