Do these marks (- for exclusion, + for mandatory) still work on search engines? I thought they stopped entertaining them years ago, exactly because they don’t want the user to mess with SEO results.
I know from personal experience that double quotes (to search for an exact expression) are ignored.
SEO is a cancer
If you add “-best -awesome” or search on google you can get some real results, but I usually avoid google. You can also try searxng
Do these marks (- for exclusion, + for mandatory) still work on search engines? I thought they stopped entertaining them years ago, exactly because they don’t want the user to mess with SEO results. I know from personal experience that double quotes (to search for an exact expression) are ignored.
Not on Google. They work on kagi and I assume they do on DDG/searx etc
Ive found it to be inconsistent; used to not work on ddg /bing but worked today for me. Used to work on google but less so nowadays
Double quotes just get me flagged as a bot every single time on Startpage.
Startpage constantly bot flagged me, even just doing normal searches. Just a shitty detector on that one.