And we’re still stuck with its aftermath in that search engines require quotes rather than a + for requiring words, which they now ignore whenever the mood strikes.
Why?
Because some fuckwit at Google decided that the + was reserved for Google+ search results.
Even if it was good, the fact that they wrote Google Plus and not Google+ tells me how much thought they put into this article
I was an early user of it and, unlike a lot of Google projects, there’s a reason they scrapped it: it sucked.
And we’re still stuck with its aftermath in that search engines require quotes rather than a + for requiring words, which they now ignore whenever the mood strikes.
Why?
Because some fuckwit at Google decided that the + was reserved for Google+ search results.