How do I tweak Google search?

Asked by rawrgrr (1568

) August 4th, 2009

I want to search for words that have to stay in a specific order. For example if I search for a book title like [not real title] ex: “Bob and the amazing Dragon” Google will give search results like

-“The dragon ate Bob‘s head.”
-”Bob ate a banana the other day.”
or
-”Dragons do not exist but have been said to many years ago..”

Do you understand what i’m getting at? How can I search for something where the words have to be in a specific order? Thanks

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http://www.googleguide.com/quoted_phrases.html

“To search for a phrase, a proper name, or a set of words in a specific order, put them in double quotes.”

3023ogilvyd (17

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Yup. Put quotes around exact phrases. If you don’t know the exact phrase, add + signs. Like: +Bob +Dragon book amazing, that will make sure the results have Bob and Dragon.
You can also do a similar deal with -. If you do Bob dragon amazing -banana, it’ll filter out the results that have “banana”.

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