Experienced Programmers Use Google Frequently

Re:Experienced Programmers Use Google Frequently by striking on Saturday April 30, 2016 @05:20PM (#11603652)

My favorite modifier removal: Currently, you can use - to exclude keywords. Once upon a time, you could use + to require a keyword... until Google+ came out, and + became how you would search for people's profiles.

sigh

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Re:Experienced Programmers Use Google Frequently by developer2 on Saturday April 30, 2016 @06:11PM (#11603837)

This. I can't believe someone approved removing the use of "+" as a search operator. It was at the very core of searching Google. It took months before I found out you needed to double-quote "every" "single" "damn" "individual" "word" to force searching by inclusion.

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Re:Experienced Programmers Use Google Frequently by nitrogen on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @01:59AM (#11618273)

I think the day Google nerfed search for the sake of Plus was the day they jumped the proverbial shark. At least for me, that was when I stopped thinking Google could do no wrong. Then they nixed Reader.

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Re:Experienced Programmers Use Google Frequently by GrumpyYoungMan on Saturday April 30, 2016 @11:15PM (#11604693)

Bing still honors the + operator, thankfully. I find it occasionally useful.

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