[ahpeeyem]

After Google Plus was released, Google changed its search syntax slightly so that you now need to "quote" mandatory terms instead of prefixing them with a + symbol.

http://waxy.org/2011/10/google_kills_its_other_plus/ https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/websearch/3oI...

[cogburnd02]

This is really weird, because now I have to enter this:

"singer" "song" -inurl:(htm|html|php) intitle:"index of" "last modified" "parent directory" "description" "size" "m4a"|"mp3"|"ogg"|"flac"

to search for songs. Too many quotation marks!

original, unmodified: http://lifehacker.com/207672/turn-google-into-your-own-perso...