Google Takes The "+" Out Of Search

When you control over 60% of the search market, you can more or less do whatever you want. Google has decided to forcibly change the way our brains understand the act of search by ditching the “+” operator. Google searches will now ignore that symbol in web searches, but there is an alternative, clumsy as it is.
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Evidently Yahoo bought AltaVista some time back. The '+' sign still works as expected there.
Also on another board I heard about
DuckDuckGo

I have it set up as the search in my address bar on Chromium.
'+' should work with it also. Although I heard it may not return as many hits as the big search engines. At least on Chromium you can assign a prefix to use a different engine right out of the address bar. I have 'ya' for yahoo, 'scr' for scroogle, 'imdb' for internet movie database etc.

Not sure if you can do something similar in Firefox or IE.
 

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Yes you can have different search engines in FF.
 

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For searching out of address bar though, I think you can only have one. You can use this generator to add search plugins: Firefox Search Plugins Generator

and I think there are AddOns to do side panel that lets you search using multiple engines in one shot. But I don't know of anything that lets you type a prefix into the address bar to use a different search like with chromium based. It doesn't seem like a big deal but if you can do all your searches out of the address bar then you can just take the search input off the toolbar and reuse the space.

Once you get used to it it's like using hotkeys. You hit the key combination even if it's not set up on that machine. :)
 

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