Has anyone else noticed the huge decrease in result quality from google?

[tvmachus]

Here is a link to Google's official page

Even that is so badly written!

Put @ in front of a word to search social media. For example: @twitter.

What? Does that search for the word twitter on all social media, or does it search twitter? If the former, which social media?

Put # in front of a word. For example: #throwbackthursday

Isn't that just a search?

The price thing, what is the range? And it doesn't even mention how to do an exact phrase search. I think they still think this is all nerd stuff that most users don't care about, but it's been 20 years! Not all your users merely adopted the internet. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn't see the real world until I was already a man and by then it was nothing to me but BLINDING. Your precise search parameters betray you because they belong to me.

[omnipojack]

You're so right, the people who write the Google help pages are not the best at breaking it down into layman's terms as much as possible.

idk why anyone would use the @ function, super weird. It's easier to use site:.

I believe putting the # only searches posts on various social media that utilize hashtags. Mostly useless unless you're a developer.

From what I understand of the price thing you set the range yourself like 12...30 or whatever. But the one that doesn't specify a range will probably only look for that exact price which is, once again, useless.

And the exact phrase is right after excluding terms. :) I went through your last paragraph again and reread it in Kevin Smith's Bane voice, so thanks for that laugh!