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A comment on Ask HN: Why do search terms like 'Generate -1 to 1' return nothing on Google?.

Re:Ask HN: Why do search terms like 'Generate -1 to 1' retur... by AkshayPrabhu on Monday January 10, 2022 @07:07AM (#29873545)
The minus sign excludes a term, for example "-Dell laptop" would result laptops where "Dell" isn't in the results.

By searching "-1 1" you're searching for the term "1"and then excluding all results with the term" 1".

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Re:Ask HN: Why do search terms like 'Generate -1 to 1' retur... by high_byte on Monday January 10, 2022 @02:34PM (#29880544)
yes but you can add quotes to avoid that from happening!
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