Re-design without community buy-in will kill you

[Pete Zicato]

Google also recently removed the meaning of '+' from searches. It used to make sense. Use '-' to only show pages without the word. Use '+' to show pages only if the word was included. They still honor '-' but took out the code for '+'.

They didn't provide any alternative method of forcing this. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

[glatt]

Originally Posted by Pete Zicato

They didn't provide any alternative method of forcing this. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

you can put the word in quotes and it will do the exact same thing + did. You just have to hit that extra key to put the end quote in there. So there is an additional keystroke.

[BigV]

Originally Posted by Pete Zicato

Google also recently removed the meaning of '+' from searches. It used to make sense. Use '-' to only show pages without the word. Use '+' to show pages only if the word was included. They still honor '-' but took out the code for '+'.

This is true.

Originally Posted by Pete Zicato

They didn't provide any alternative method of forcing this.

This is false. The new syntax is to enclose the desired word in double quotes, just as you previously would have preceded the desired word with a +.

Originally Posted by Pete Zicato

Stupid, stupid, stupid.

This is debatable.