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Yep, Google decided it was too complicated and removed it all. Dont know how it was too complicated, people just wouldn't use it if they didn't know about it. They felt "natural language" would be more useful. Bullshit, I search for "foo and bar" it'll return me results for foo and ignore the rest
That's not why they ignore them. They ignore them because it is profitable.
So google has reverted to late 90s search behavior
Considering what happened to late-'90s search engines, that seems like a rather dangerous ideaβ¦
They got killed by Google. I was a Dogpile man myself, until someone showed me the google search.
Does anyone know the AOL keyword for Lemmy?
WDYM? Quotes work for me. Can you give an example that is broken?
https://www.google.de/search?q=%22google+decided+it+was+too+complicated+and+removed+it%22&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
I frequently have to look up whether a term is a misspelling/mistranslation or an actual technical term (or a term in British English, or a British spelling for a technical word). For me, quotes do nothing. It will frequently refuse to look up the term I'm specifically hunting for, just the term it thinks I should be hunting for. Sometimes that means it's a mistranslation... but not always.
Next time it comes up for me, I'll keep a note of it and get back to you.
I have an even bigger problem trying to exclude terms from a search. The example I always use is try to look up "Dolphins -football", and use any version of "-" you'd like (NOT, etc). The first results will always be the latest scores for the Miami Dolphins.
Ssh, youβre ruining the circle jerk.
This still works if you use double quotes!
Too complicated for them and their optimisations, maybe?