This isn't really the solution we were looking for Matt.
Can we replace the + operator with something else? How about¬? We don't use that very often to the point I don't even know what it's called, but it's there on the keyboard in one keypress.
Can we replace the + operator with something else? How about¬? We don't use that very often to the point I don't even know what it's called, but it's there on the keyboard in one keypress.
It really was nice to be able to control which words were verbatim and which weren't. Quotes are perfectly logical but just a pain to retrofit onto a query you're refining.
Showing results for this is a search Search instead for +this is a +search
As google does for other "typos".
Failing that, a replacement for + would be welcome. I can't imagine many people type, for example ^word or =word - allowing use of a symbol that indicates promotion of that word word in the search terms, they way + did.
The difficulty will be reeducating the (presumably quite large number of - even if proportionally a small percentage of googles user base) people who have been using + in searches for the last 10-15 years (I'm almost positive this concept existed in other search engines before google) that + isn't + any more, and please use this other symbol instead.
How about the ability to use something like Google "classic" with the old way of using the + sign?
Hide it as an off-home page selection, that way only people who really want it will choose it.
I'd also be interested in something similar for an "advanced search syntax" mode. Probably not very useful for the majority of people, but could be something a minority might be very passionate about.
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It's also almost never found on standard US keyboards, which is why the tilde is often used as a logical negation operator in it's place.
What? Yes, yes it is. Please don't take it away now!