> Google Search simply doesn't recognize the "(-)-" part of the search term. AFAIK, Google search has always ignored parentheses and most punctuation symbols (

> Google Search simply doesn't recognize the "(-)-" part of the search term. AFAIK, Google search has always ignored parentheses and most punctuation symbols (other than ones that are special to it, like +require_term -exclude_term "...") https://support.google.com/websearch/thread/71287971/does-google-now-use-parentheses-didn-t-use-to-how-different-is-it-from-using-the-or-operator?hl=en https://support.google.com/websearch/thread/71287971/does-go...