Has been going on for a decade in my region but it seems recently other people on HN has been hit too.
With that said, welcome to the club. I feel sorry for you all who have to go through this now; I've had a decade to adapt.
With that said, welcome to the club. I feel sorry for you all who have to go through this now; I've had a decade to adapt.
It's nice to see that AND and OR still work, but from a few tests, it seems that most of us should be prefacing our searches with "allintext:" (without the quotation marks). It works well to dramatically improve the results of my searches. I think I'll write myself a google search page that automatically prepends it to my searches.
I have been a really advanced Google user and somehow I have missed that particular one!
Edit:
1. Reading through it I am fairly certain some of these has been defect too. define: in particular is one that I used to use, but that I was sure was broken. Today it worked again though.
2. At least double quotes still doesn't work (or maybe they include text from links pointing to site or something)
3. How did you find this? I've been looking for something like this recently :-)
> “search term” > > Force an exact-match search.
This is no longer working in my experience, at least for full phrases (for example error messages), same in DuckDuckGo
I guess I buried the lede. I probably should have just focused on the allintext: operator in my comment. That's the operator that makes a huge difference in my searches and that I wanted to share.
Now I just wonder if that is Kagis magic trick
- and how long it will take before Google "repairs away" this feature too :-(