[Web4lib] Why use the plus symbol before search terms when googling?

[Isabelle Laplante]

Hello,

the plus sign is important in languages with accentuated letters.
With the plus sign, you tell Google to search "exactly" this sequence of 
letters (even a sensitivity on uppercase-lowercase).
Example in french:
+collégial
is not the same as
+collegial


With collegial without the plus sign, you have all the variation of the word
collegial
collégial
collegìal
etc...

Hope it help,

Isabelle Laplante
Bibliothécaire / Librarian
Centre de documentation collégiale
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Web : http://www.cdc.qc.ca





John Fitzgibbon wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Why use the plus symbol before search terms when googling? Google
>automatically puts a Boolean And between search terms. Shouldn't this
>render the + symbol unnecessary? Is it best to search without the + or
>should I enter it anyway?
>
>Just wondering.
>
>John Fitzgibbon
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