Microsoft's Bing Isn't a Joke Anymore

Re:Microsoft's Bing Isn't a Joke Anymore by PhasmaFelis on Wednesday July 20, 2016 @03:47AM (#12127449)

Mind you, it's overloaded now; double quotes also mean "this term must appear in the results." Used to be that prefixing with + meant that, but they killed that function so they could use it for Google Plus. You used to be able to search for, say, "annie oakley" "wild bill hickok" and find pages with either or both of those complete phrases; now there's no obvious way to do that.

Many years ago, IIRC, Google Search also supported boolean AND/OR, but that was also removed, for no obvious reason.

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Re:Microsoft's Bing Isn't a Joke Anymore by majewsky on Wednesday July 20, 2016 @06:02AM (#12127873)

Probably because it produces confusing effects when people type in full sentences.

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Re:Microsoft's Bing Isn't a Joke Anymore by PhasmaFelis on Wednesday July 20, 2016 @07:00PM (#12133182)

That wouldn't prevent them from denoting booleans with special characters (which they already do with other functions--see https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433?hl=en), or having some kind of "advanced" interface. As far as I've been able to tell, boolean searches have been entirely removed from Google's public-facing search. There was no need to do that.

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