So this is what the + is for now. Go ahead, enter [+pepsi] in the Google Chrome omnibox.
This looks like the first time Google's fundamental search syntax has been changed to support a new product. Right? Wow.
So I guess now we know how meaningful the "plus" is. It at first seemed like a generic advertising term, like "Google Deluxe". Then when we started using G+, it seemed like it was just their riff on the @ syntax. Now we know it goes all the way to the input box on www.google.com, the very center of the Google user experience.
Now, queries starting with a plus basically shunt you to Google+ instead of web search. To the average Google user, it's like their country's phone company created new phone numbers that start with #. Can they do that? They just did.
The upshot is that Google has officially carved out part of the web search query universe just for a namespace of its own. Remember this day.
This looks like the first time Google's fundamental search syntax has been changed to support a new product. Right? Wow.
So I guess now we know how meaningful the "plus" is. It at first seemed like a generic advertising term, like "Google Deluxe". Then when we started using G+, it seemed like it was just their riff on the @ syntax. Now we know it goes all the way to the input box on www.google.com, the very center of the Google user experience.
Now, queries starting with a plus basically shunt you to Google+ instead of web search. To the average Google user, it's like their country's phone company created new phone numbers that start with #. Can they do that? They just did.
The upshot is that Google has officially carved out part of the web search query universe just for a namespace of its own. Remember this day.