BASIC GOOGLE OPERATORS

+

Forces words to be included in search results. Useful with stop words that otherwise will be discarded

-

Prevents a search term to show in results, for example searching for doughnut -cream can help you to avoid creamy doughnuts

OR

Returns documents with one of the given terms, like doughnut OR donut. You can also use | instead of OR: doughnut | donut

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Using quotes forces google to search for the exact phrase (including stop words), try “doughnut at midnight” and doughnut at midnight (actually, using quotes is similar, but not equals, to doughnut-at-midnight … it would be interesting to know what is the exact difference in SERP)

~

Allow to search also for synonyms of the given word. Searching for doughnut ~tips finds also pages with the word help or guide etc.

*

Means every word. Try “doughnuts with *”

..

Used to search in a range of numbers, “2..20 doughnuts” will find pages containing “I eat 3 doughnuts a day” and “I’ll never eat more than 15 doughnuts in a month”

This operators can be combined to create advanced queries, for example “I eat 1..100 doughnut OR doughnuts OR donut OR donuts each *”