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Re:In 2020, two thirds of Google searches ended without a click by nitrogen on Monday March 22, 2021 @02:40PM (#26544919)
somewhere in between there they messed up the + operator that used to mean "make sure this term is included"

IIRC this one was driven by Google Plus marketing wanting "+" to mean "Go to this page on Google Plus" so they could do some co-marketing thing with +Pepsi.

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Re:In 2020, two thirds of Google searches ended without a click by AlexandrB on Monday March 22, 2021 @02:58PM (#26545181)
Unbelievable. Google plus is the "gift" that keeps on giving, even after it's gone.
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Re:In 2020, two thirds of Google searches ended without a click by eitland on Monday March 22, 2021 @03:01PM (#26545225)
Most amazingly the worst thing about it is they killed it after it had become nice :-)
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Re:In 2020, two thirds of Google searches ended without a click by eitland on Monday March 22, 2021 @03:00PM (#26545208)
My understanding as well.

It never made sense to me for Google+ but it broke that feature.

Lately it seems + might be working on DDG and maybe Google as well, only I have to use it in combination with double quotes like this:

+ <some search terms including a +"weiiird" one>

Edit: Can't say for sure if it is a feature or if I just knock out the dumbifier somehow :-P

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