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> AND: Search for X and Y. This will return only results related to both X and Y. Note: It doesn’t really make much difference for regular searches, as Google d
by jolmg 8y ago
> AND: Search for X and Y. This will return only results related to both X and Y. Note: It doesn’t really make much difference for regular searches, as Google defaults to “AND” anyway. But it’s very useful when paired with other operators.
If space equates to AND, then how is it useful? There's really no technical reason to use AND, right? I mean, even if you nest:
good1 OR (good2 AND -bad)
I imagine it should be equal to:
good1 OR (good2 -bad)
> define:entrepreneur
The : is not needed; one can use a space. Also, I imagine this isn't really an operator, since it doesn't make sense to mix it with any other. Same with "weather:".
- pbhjpbhj 8y agoIt doesn't default to AND. Search some words and you'll often find that one is not in the result anywhere.
- dreamcompiler 8y agoIt defaults to some weird combination like "OR but show ANDs first." Very often when I search for one term it will show X results. When I add a second term it shows Y results, where Y>>X. That's logically impossible with AND.
- yesenadam 8y agoA search with good1 OR (good2 AND -bad) says 549,000 results; good1 OR (good2 -bad) says 2,000,000, and the first page of results looks entirely different.