[PLUG] web search post filtering

[Ali Corbin]

On Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 11:22 PM Keith Lofstrom <keithl at kl-ic.com> wrote:

> Perhaps I'm losing my ability to write useful search engine
> queries, but I suspect the "free" search engines are
> evolving to deliver sponsored search results that only
> vaguely resemble my request.
>
> For example, get many many results to a "+word" inquiry
> with no instances of the word I want.  There might be a
> pony under all those horses**t results, but I don't have
> the time or stamina to dig.
>

On google at least, the +whatsit syntax was deprecated some time back.
(Although the -whatsit syntax still works, I think, to filter out sites
that contain that word.)
Now, to set a mandatory search term, you have to enclose it in double
quotes.