Edit: i’ll update this list of search engines that are alleged (up to you, the Reader, to verify) not to respect special search operators:
- owoarchist said Google
Keep your previous search terms but add “NOT” then whatever the word thats coming up that you want to exclude from search results since its not relevant to what you’re looking for
I just intuited and put this to use a moment ago and it works and helped filter down things substantially


On most search engines you can use the syntax -Cuck to exclude Cuck porn and you can put “Team sports” in quotation marks like so to ensure only pages with that phrase will be shown
Nice
is the opposite for + like +includeTerm such that includeTerm must be included?
Man, I’ve seen some specific niches on the internet, but this takes the cake.
This works on DuckDuckGo.
It wasn’t working for me on duckduckgo earlier today. I searched something like
imagewriter manual -IIand almost every result was about the II and had II in the title. Hopefully that was just a weird temporary problem and they aren’t removing itTry NOT II
I use it constantly when searching for items I want to buy for projects.
-Amazonalways works for me.