Comment Comment by DanBC + might have worked perfectly, but most people didn't use it, and of those who did use it most used it incorrectly.(http://insidesearch.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/search-using-your...)> we found that users typed the “+” operator in less than half a percent of all searches, and two thirds of the time, it was used incorrectly.Check my arithmetic but that means only 1 in 600 searches used + correctly; 2 in 600 used it wrong, and the other 597 searches didn't use it at all. parent DanBC 13 years ago
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> we found that users typed the “+” operator in less than half a percent of all searches, and two thirds of the time, it was used incorrectly.
Check my arithmetic but that means only 1 in 600 searches used + correctly; 2 in 600 used it wrong, and the other 597 searches didn't use it at all.