On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 at 14:40, Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote: > I hope not; some of gargles false hits have been absolutely ludicrous. > When it comes to search engines, I prefer Do What I Said, Not What You > Incorrectly Guessed I Meant. If you documentthat + means the term must be > present and I type a plus sign, then yes, I mean that the term must be > present. If I put a phrase in quotes, then I *DON'T* want the hits on the > individual words. >
Google long ago deprecated use of + to mean that a term must be present, and instead conflated it with quotes which used to mean "exactly like this". The + was dropped because of its new use with Google Plus (Google's second major attempt to produce a FaceBook), which itself has recently been deprecated. These days it's almost impossible to get any mainstream search engine to do exactly what you want. Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
