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Re:Ask HN: Is there room for another search engine? by user5994461 on Sunday March 26, 2017 @05:21PM (#13963372)
+word

It used to force to search the word exactly as written.

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Re:Ask HN: Is there room for another search engine? by dredmorbius on Sunday March 26, 2017 @07:53PM (#13964106)
"Used to" is the operative phrase. That was among the negative consequences of Google+, as +<term> notation apparently was going to be reserved or repurposed for that somehow, but never was.

I've done some large-scale searching where the most relevant detail is how many results are returned, most particularly for a specific domain. (For which, incidentally, there's no handy mechanism to accomplish, so it's <array of terms> * <array of domains>, and multiplicative explosion of searches, plus about a 45s timeout per query to avoid triggering bot defenses by Google.

Such as this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/3hp41w/trackin...

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Re:Ask HN: Is there room for another search engine? by donretag on Sunday March 26, 2017 @06:04PM (#13963572)
The plus/+ notation has been removed. You must know surround the term in quotes "word".
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