The Omission Or Inclusion Of Words In Your Search Query
Sometimes when you do a search on the internet, you may get frustrated that your search results always contain the words or websites that you do not want.
A quick and useful way to omit words in your results would be to use the minus (-) sign in your search query.
If you do not want certain words to appear in your results, you can type in the search engine field, for example:
"tourist attractions in city Z -ferris wheel"
It works even for websites:
"tourist attractions in city Z -xyz.com "
Or
"technical help -abc" (where abc is the company name)
Similarly, if you would like to include certain words in your results, you can type, for example:
"tourist attractions in city Z +bus tours"
If you want results from a certain website or company, you can type:
"tourist attractions in city Z +xyz.com"
Or
"technical help +abc"
A word of caution though, it may not work for everything (depending on your search query; whether the omission or inclusion of your words is possible) and also not at every search engine.
Major search engines like Google, Yahoo!, Ask.com, Lycos and AltaVista currently do support this feature.
In addition, if you want your results to include only certain words or websites; most of the time, search engines would already display them on the first page with regards to priority/relevance, subsequent pages would then present results without those words or from other websites other than the one you have specified.
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Added: April 23, 2008
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