Why are some music forums shutting down?

[mjolnir]

Originally Posted by galt54

Google and all the other search engines which I have tried out are not any good for locating useful information any longer. The results which come up nowadays often consist mostly of sites the content of which has nothing to do with what I was searching for. ...

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part of the reason for that is Google and other search engines have an unresolved syntax error. Google used to support dash ("-")/ minus sign to block content in results, but for years now they ignore that. If you try to block out certain words or ideas it doesn't work and instead includes them!!! it's really insulting that way.

also, the search engines have a glitch where they convert spaces into plusses. But we all know that a space is NOT a plus and a plus is NOT a space.

This is important in terms of band and song and tune names and file names but all of a sudden the corporate internet doesn't care.

It's a problem. I tried to tell some security specialists about it on an internet security page, but they weren't really paying attention.