I was spell checking myself and the auto-generated summary of results told me that the phrase didn’t exist.

  • Optional@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    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*

    • Hawke@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      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”.

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        30 seconds ago

        Back in the day, you could also type ‘AND’ and Google would interpret it the same as it later did the plus symbol.