We're improving search results when you use quotes

Re:We're improving search results when you use quotes by dannysullivan on Friday August 05, 2022 @09:19AM (#32355701)

The change from + to "" as a restriction option removed no "agency" from users. It provided exactly the same functionality, allowing anyone to require that a particular word or phrase be present in Google Search results.

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Re:We're improving search results when you use quotes by criddell on Friday August 05, 2022 @09:21AM (#32355720)

Does Google document all of the current search operators? When I search for that I'm only finding secondary sources and have no idea if they are correct or not.

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Re:We're improving search results when you use quotes by dannysullivan on Monday August 08, 2022 @10:59AM (#32386248)

We have a long-standing page here: https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433

Also explained here: https://www.google.com/advanced_search

Hopefully we'll get these even more detailed in the future.

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Re:We're improving search results when you use quotes by Jtype on Friday August 05, 2022 @09:46AM (#32356049)

And removing "-"?

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Re:We're improving search results when you use quotes by LegionMammal978 on Friday August 05, 2022 @10:25AM (#32356516)

The `-` operator has never been removed? If I search for `athens`, I get results for Athens, Greece. If I search for `athens -greece`, I get one map result for a random "Athens Greece", followed by web results for Athens, AL, Athens, GA, and Athens, OH. At most, the issue is that the widgets don't respect the `-` operator as well as the web results do.

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