Use "THIS" not +THIS

As I found out here [here at LifeHacker] Google changed the way we do searchs. Instead of using the +, use "xxx", for example;

• "this" instead of +this

I've always been a huge fan of using the + to make sure certain words are Included in the search.   Conveniently, the "-" (minus sign) works as well when you want to Exclude words. While my searches typically start out pretty broad, I narrow the results down by putting the "-" sign in front of the words I surely don't need.  For example, I was going a search for:

• how to change email signatures

and the top hits returned those about inserting signatures into Outlook. A simple change to the search to this:

• how to change email signatures -outlook

Gave me what I wanted!  Thanks LifeHacker for keeping me informed; Thanks Google for being awesome!