{"id":849,"date":"2011-10-28T00:05:04","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T07:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spreadingscience.com\/?p=849"},"modified":"2011-10-28T00:05:06","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T07:05:06","slug":"google-starts-destroying-it-core-product-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spreadingscience.com\/2011\/10\/28\/google-starts-destroying-it-core-product-search\/","title":{"rendered":"Google starts destroying it core product – search"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google quietly removes + functionality from search<\/a>
[Via Boing Boing<\/a><\/span>]<\/p>\n

It used to be that you could make Google include terms in search results by placing the + symbol before them in queries. Not any more! Writing for Wired<\/em>, Andy Baio covers Google’s increasing willingness to muck around with your search queries<\/a> and how to work around it. [Wired]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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[More<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It used to be that by adding the “+” forced that word to explicitly be on the page, not in some sort of meta part based on Google’s magic computers.<\/em><\/p>\n

Now to do the same thing requires twice as much work \u2013 placing quotes around everything. <\/em><\/p>\n

All so it can use the + symbol for Google+ like Twitter uses the hash (#).<\/em><\/p>\n

The reason Google took over with search are many but one of the basic things was how it combined the words in the search. It allowed very simple control over a search, meaning that the often arcane commands many earlier search engines used became unnecessary.<\/em><\/p>\n

But as time has gone on, they have meddled with this. I \u00a0often do searches where some of the words I use are not found on the page at all. It becomes a worthless search. Putting the “+” in front of a word helped make sure I would find it. Other’s have commented on this exact thing<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Now, to make it more convenient for their social service \u2013 which copies other services \u2013 they are harming their whole reason for existing.<\/em><\/p>\n

Because it appears that the branding of “+” \u00a0for their social services is now more important than their core product. Companies fail when branding becomes such a core part of their business, especially when it overshadows core business units.<\/em><\/p>\n

There are already beginning to appear competitors to Google search that may find a large niche here if Google continues to take it eyes off the prize.<\/em><\/p>\n

I know I will be looking for a service that acts more like the original Google than this new bastard version.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Google quietly removes + functionality from search [Via Boing Boing] It used to be that you could make Google include terms in search results by placing the + symbol before them in queries. Not any more! Writing for Wired, Andy Baio covers Google’s increasing willingness to muck around with your search queries and how to … Continue reading Google starts destroying it core product – search<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[22,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century-company","category-web-20"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pe2yp-dH","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1041,"url":"https:\/\/www.spreadingscience.com\/2014\/06\/12\/a-21st-century-company-eschews-patents\/","url_meta":{"origin":849,"position":0},"title":"A 21st century company eschews patents?","date":"June 12, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Tesla's Elon Musk champions open source cars: 'All Our Patent Are Belong To\u00a0You'[Via Boing Boing] \"Yesterday, there was a wall of Tesla patents in the lobby of our Palo Alto headquarters. 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