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Re:The Google Squeeze by fanf2 on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @04:36PM (#21518425)
Yes it is harder because of the death of the + operator and the insistence on aggressive stemming and autocorrecting that applies even when you “really” “mean” “what” “you” “say”.
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Re:The Google Squeeze by maemilius on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @05:57PM (#21519157)
Interesting that the + operator doesn't work but the - operator still works just fine.

I don't know how many times I've had to add -nodejs to things I'm trying to search to eliminate irrelevant garbage from some of my searches.

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Re:The Google Squeeze by uoaei on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @07:36PM (#21519906)
They removed the + operator because they wanted people to be able to search "G+", "Google+" and "Google +" in addition to Google Plus. Interesting that they haven't reverted it yet, though, considering that Google Plus is now utterly defunct.
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Re:The Google Squeeze by beerandt on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @10:21PM (#21520921)
You can just put the single word in quotes. As far as I can tell, it works the same way as the + used to.
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