Comment by RaDeus on 14/08/2022 at 13:47 UTC

36 upvotes, 4 direct replies (showing 4)

View submission: Nice one Google

I'm really getting tired of *Alphabets* search engine...

+, " and - search tricks are more suggestions than hard rules these days it seems 🤦‍♂️

It has immensely downgraded the experience.

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Comment by braxistExtremist at 14/08/2022 at 14:17 UTC*

21 upvotes, 3 direct replies

Yup. And while you can revert to the older search operators with the 'verbatim' option, they hide it and require a few clicks to enable it.

Edit: to get to the verbatim option, on the results page click on the 'search tools' option, and then in the 'all results' drop down change it to 'verbatim'.

Comment by [deleted] at 14/08/2022 at 20:35 UTC

2 upvotes, 1 direct replies

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Comment by surfnporn at 14/08/2022 at 20:13 UTC

1 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Confused by your comment.

What's Alphabets search engine?

Do the +, -, and " operators no longer work? Seem fine to me..

Comment by Asdfmoviefan1265 at 29/04/2023 at 07:07 UTC

1 upvotes, 0 direct replies

necro but i'm pretty sure the search tricks look through everything on the site, not just the header, that's why you'll see it giving you x when you searched for y, y is hidden in x