Oh goody, in my randomness come across a 10 year old search engine that actually supports boolean search strings.
It's a french one in the vein of duckduckgo/startpage called qwant. Will play around with it, but it does the one thing that the others do not, it respects quotations as "find this exact phrase" and it respects - as "no results with this in it."
Pretty sure the reason google stopped using boolean was to shunt more ads and paid results on people. Why give users what they want?
@sentientdessert I don't use Google but afaik it still has the same search operators. Trust you if you're saying they don't work.
@sentientdessert ad bucks get first dibs
@b4cks4w Exactly, regardless of if the user wants to see the result or not.
I've noticed the same, with quotes, + or -, they don't work, seems to not recognize, while they used to.
@b4cks4w I've tried the same searches across the different big engines and they've not respected quotes or - for a long time now, it's been frustrating.
Like, one thing I commonly look for is lyrics. And if the top results are an artist I know it isn't, I'll usually - them out. I noticed on google it disregarded the - and showed results that only had the term I wanted gotten rid of.
It's a case of they say the function exists, but attempting to use it proves otherwise.