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That's because Google doesn't do boolean searches. It will ignore the or (too common a word) and ends up treating it like an and search.

I sincerely hope that whever moderated the parent "informative" will get what they deserve.

First, Google supports limited boolean operators, consisting of exclusion (using '-'), forced-inclusion of stopwords (using '+'), phrases (words in double quotes or separated by other punctuation marks) and ORing (using 'OR' or '|').

It also supports "wildcard words", which lets you approximate a "NEAR" search.

Finally, more customization is available using documented and undocumented (julian date and phonebook - residential and business) operators.

However, when their their 10-word limit is combined with the absence of stemming, real wildcards and real boolean expressions, you may want to check the competition.

That's because Google doesn't do boolean searches. It will ignore the or (too common a word) and ends up treating it like an and search.

I sincerely hope that whever moderated the parent "informative" will get what they deserve.

First, Google supports limited boolean operators, consisting of exclusion (using '-'), forced-inclusion of stopwords (using '+'), phrases (words in double quotes or separated by other punctuation marks) and ORing (using 'OR' or '|').

It also supports "wildcard words", which lets you approximate a "NEAR" search.

Finally, more customization is available using documented and undocumented (julian date and phonebook - residential and business) operators.

However, when their their 10-word limit is combined with the absence of stemming, real wildcards and real boolean expressions, you may want to check the competition.

That's because Google doesn't do boolean searches. It will ignore the or (too common a word) and ends up treating it like an and search.

I sincerely hope that whever moderated the parent "informative" will get what they deserve.

First, Google supports limited boolean operators, consisting of exclusion (using '-'), forced-inclusion of stopwords (using '+'), phrases (words in double quotes or separated by other punctuation marks) and ORing (using 'OR' or '|').

It also supports "wildcard words", which lets you approximate a "NEAR" search.

Finally, more customization is available using documented and undocumented (julian date and phonebook - residential and business) operators.

However, when their their 10-word limit is combined with the absence of stemming, real wildcards and real boolean expressions, you may want to check the competition.

That's because Google doesn't do boolean searches. It will ignore the or (too common a word) and ends up treating it like an and search.

I sincerely hope that whever moderated the parent "informative" will get what they deserve.

First, Google supports limited boolean operators, consisting of exclusion (using '-'), forced-inclusion of stopwords (using '+'), phrases (words in double quotes or separated by other punctuation marks) and ORing (using 'OR' or '|').

It also supports "wildcard words", which lets you approximate a "NEAR" search.

Finally, more customization is available using documented and undocumented (julian date and phonebook - residential and business) operators.

However, when their their 10-word limit is combined with the absence of stemming, real wildcards and real boolean expressions, you may want to check the competition.

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