Google has quietly removed the Boolean + operator from its search options–and replaced it with expanded quotation mark functionality. For those who don’t use Boolean search operators, this isn’t a big ...

Google quietly dropped the use of the + (plus) symbol to link search items in a move the Mountain View, Calif. company says will simplify the process of Boolean searching, according to Iain Thomson.

Google is the global market leader when it comes to online search. It's how most of us use the internet. Even though a growing number of people use their awesome new smart speakers to search the web, ...

Google's search was once so ubiquitous that the verb "to google" is now synonymous with "look it up." Yet it's now more than ever that Google's hegemony is in question. Studies have suggested that ...