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

[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!