Google-search – Forced words in Google search query are being ignored, plus no longer working as explicit inclusion

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How do I force including a word in Google search if the plus (+) operator doesn't work anymore?

Here's an example search.

+("os x" OR "osx") +temperature +(console OR "command line")

I expected it to return pages that must contain:

The word 'temperature' AND
Either the word 'osx', or 'os x' (or both) AND
Either the word 'console', or the phrase 'command line' (or both).

The first page of results do not have the word "temperature" in. (That is, every link on Google's first page does not have the word "temperature".)

Best Answer

+ is no longer used to mean "take this term exactly". If you do the following search:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&biw=1280&bih=869&q=hacker+%2Bnews&oq=hacker+%2Bnews

you'll see the following at the top of the search:

The + operator has been replaced.
To search for an exact word or phrase, use double quotation marks: hacker "news"

You just need quotes for the exact term.

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Google case sensitive search;

http://case-sensitive-search.appspot.com/

This application will Google query terms (the first input box), scan through the results in a specific range (From:From+Limit) and filter out those results where the filter terms (second input box; if empty, then same as the query terms) does not appear exactly in the same case as given by the user.

Hope this helps.

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It has been replaced with the double quotes. Ex. "c++".

Here you can check it out.

Google elimiated the + operator in October 2011 and expanded the capabilities of the quotation marks (” ”) operator. In addition to using this operator to search for an exact phrase, you can now add quotation marks around a single word to tell Google to match that word precisely.

So your query should be:

"what language is * written in?" "c++"

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