Finally wrote that blog post about Google’s + search operator and the halcyon days when it worked… or when it did something different from quoting search terms… or something? Turns out this is messy and most people misremember it. Including me.
https://blog.zarfhome.com/2023/08/the-myth-of-google-plus
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