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Google nailed the search engine user interface quite some time ago... If there is one area of search technology where Google has contributed almost nothing, it

Google nailed the search engine user interface quite some time ago... If there is one area of search technology where Google has contributed almost nothing, it is the search interface. The subjective user experience is virtually unchanged since the days of Alta Vista circa 1996.

hexley 13y ago
Actually they fucked it up when they started messing with the perfectly working +,- operands.
- DanBC 13y ago
  + might have worked perfectly, but most people didn't use it, and of those who did use it most used it incorrectly. (http://insidesearch.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/search-using-your-terms-verbatim.html http://insidesearch.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/search-using-your...) > 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. Check my arithmetic but that means only 1 in 600 searches used + correctly; 2 in 600 used it wrong, and the other 597 searches didn't use it at all.
  - hexley 13y ago
    That's what they say, but it's strange disappearance directly around the time of Google+ says otherwise.