Toolbar/home page: Type the words into the search box and enclose them in
quotation marks. Or, add a + (plus) sign immediately before the character or
word that Google is ignoring.
Syntax example: “king george I" or king george +I
Search for synonyms
This search is a fun one. You can tell Google to find synonyms for you. For
instance, searching for synonyms of rodent racing returns pages with the
phrases rat race and rodent performance.
Advanced Search page: The Advanced Search page has no tool for this kind
of search.
Toolbar/home page: Precede words with ~.
Syntax example: ~rodent ~racing
Omit pages with particular words
You can tell Google to search for a phrase but to omit pages that contain
particular words. For instance, you may want to find all the pages with
the phrase rodent racing but omit the pages containing the word chevrolet.
(Omitting Chevrolet in this case dramatically reduces the number of results
for some reason, which would probably be quite clear to me if I were a
Chevrolet racing fan rather than a geek.) As another example, suppose you’re
searching for pages related to solaris, but you’re not interested in the Sun
Solaris servers; you’re looking for information on the novel Solaris and the
two movies. Searching for solaris -sun dramatically changes the results; try it,
and you’ll see what I mean.
Advanced Search page: Type a search word or phrase into one of the top
three Find Results boxes, and then type the words you don’t want in the
results into the Find Results without the Words box.
Toolbar/home page: Type a dash before the word you don’t want to appear
in the search results pages.
Syntax example: “rodent racing" -chevrolet
This search phrase tells Google to look for all the pages containing the
phrase rodent racing but to exclude any pages containing the word chevrolet.
BC5
Bonus Chapter: Search Techniques You Should Know
