alt Hacker Newsremember when "Human speech" -robots -alien worked? those were the days. I guess there's just too much data now to search stuff like that.
remember when "Human speech" -robots -alien worked? those were the days. I guess there's just too much data now to search stuff like that.
> I guess there's just too much data now to search stuff like that.
That seems extremely unlikely as the reason.
It's far more likely that some executives looked at the numbers and decided that removing search operators would make people more likely to click on ads, while leaving them in would make people click on the actual results that they were searching for.