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Re:DuckDuckGo moves beyond search to also protect you while ... by prepend on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @12:28PM (#16215326)
I swear that google once supported minus as a search term, but can find no evidence to back up my memory.
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Re:DuckDuckGo moves beyond search to also protect you while ... by zentiggr on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @12:55PM (#16215580)
The minus option did once filter out results with that word, and could be amazingly helpful to find less used meanings of primary search terms. But it did go away about the same time as the + operator.
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Re:DuckDuckGo moves beyond search to also protect you while ... by latexr on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @07:04AM (#16222064)
The minus operator still works for me. I use it frequently to exclude domains (`html -site:w3schools.com`).
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Re:DuckDuckGo moves beyond search to also protect you while ... by DanBC on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @02:02PM (#16216332)
https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433?hl=en

> Exclude words from your search

> Put - in front of a word you want to leave out. For example,

    jaguar speed -car
- seems to still work for me.

   roses -flowers
returns chocolates and a theatre.

    roses
returns the flowers.
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