SpikesOtherDog@ani.social to Fuck AI@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 hours agoA little AI reassuranceani.socialimagemessage-square26fedilinkarrow-up1217arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up1216arrow-down1imageA little AI reassuranceani.socialSpikesOtherDog@ani.social to Fuck AI@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 hours agomessage-square26fedilinkfile-text
I was spell checking myself and the auto-generated summary of results told me that the phrase didn’t exist.
minus-squareOptional@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·4 hours agoNay nay - the and (+) operator worked perfectly for searching for [search term] and only showing results that included [AND other search term]. If it didn’t have the other search term it wouldn’t appear. Brilliant. Until . . . *scary music*
minus-squareHawke@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 hours agosorry perhaps I misunderstood… I’m thinking of older systems which actually used the AND keyword, as opposed to Google which used + to mean “this word must appear in the search results”.
minus-squareDrusas@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up1·41 seconds agoBack in the day, you could also type ‘AND’ and Google would interpret it the same as it later did the plus symbol.
The AND operator sucked anyway.
Nay nay - the and (+) operator worked perfectly for searching for [search term] and only showing results that included [AND other search term].
If it didn’t have the other search term it wouldn’t appear. Brilliant.
Until . . .
*scary music*
sorry perhaps I misunderstood… I’m thinking of older systems which actually used the AND keyword, as opposed to Google which used + to mean “this word must appear in the search results”.
Back in the day, you could also type ‘AND’ and Google would interpret it the same as it later did the plus symbol.