Is this a new feature? When I first started using Google (but before I dumped them) I would try the "+" trick to get it to search for all the words I wanted, and Google would print this lame message that it always searches for all of my search terms, and that the "+" was unnecessary. Of course, it would say this, and then still throw out words that I had "+"ed.
So, I gave up on Google at that time, because other engines provided exactly what I wanted. I rarely have been back since, so I wasn't aware of this improvement. I still have a complaint though... the Advanced Search "exact match" is unintuitive. I wouldn't expect to have to add a bunch of "+"s to an exact match option.
Oh well. Feel free to use their crummy inintuitive interface if you like it.
I totally agree with jd. Virutally every time I do a search on Google, I get WAAAAY more results than I would on another, BETTER search engine, largely because Google throws out several of my search terms because they are too "common".
Google is already less useful than Altavista. Call me crazy, but I'd rather wade through 3 Altavista results which contain ALL of my search terms, than 30,000 Google results, nearly all of which do NOT contain all of my search terms.
Google couldn't find the "side of a barn" from 10 feet away... mainly because it would throw out "of" and "a".;-)
To anyone who feels screwed by this whole Tivo thing: Make sure you fill out the Federal Trade Commission's Online Consumer Complaint Form.
Here's the URL:
https://rn.ftc.gov/dod/wsolcq$.startup?Z_ORG_CODE= PU01
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Is this a new feature? When I first started using Google (but before I dumped them) I would try the "+" trick to get it to search for all the words I wanted, and Google would print this lame message that it always searches for all of my search terms, and that the "+" was unnecessary. Of course, it would say this, and then still throw out words that I had "+"ed.
So, I gave up on Google at that time, because other engines provided exactly what I wanted. I rarely have been back since, so I wasn't aware of this improvement. I still have a complaint though ... the Advanced Search "exact match" is unintuitive. I wouldn't expect to have to add a bunch of "+"s to an exact match option.
Oh well. Feel free to use their crummy inintuitive interface if you like it.
I totally agree with jd. Virutally every time I do a search on Google, I get WAAAAY more results than I would on another, BETTER search engine, largely because Google throws out several of my search terms because they are too "common".
Google is already less useful than Altavista. Call me crazy, but I'd rather wade through 3 Altavista results which contain ALL of my search terms, than 30,000 Google results, nearly all of which do NOT contain all of my search terms.
Google couldn't find the "side of a barn" from 10 feet away ... mainly because it would throw out "of" and "a". ;-)
To anyone who feels screwed by this whole Tivo thing: Make sure you fill out the Federal Trade Commission's Online Consumer Complaint Form. Here's the URL: https://rn.ftc.gov/dod/wsolcq$.startup?Z_ORG_CODE= PU01