What do you think: Are Operators Obsolete?

As Carl and I worked on the question of "How do Operators help? we found it increasingly difficult to find strong cases where the basic operators had a profound effect. Search engines have gotten very good at finding information based on keyword selection alone.

Still there are instances where being knowledgeable about how operators work makes all the difference.

What do you think? Are we wasting our time teaching students basic Boolean operators? ~ Dennis & Carl (21CIF Team)