A quick test to see which search-engines still respect the \u2013 minus sign, commonly used to exclude search results containing an unwanted word. And are thus useful for proper research search.<\/p>\n
Test query: Tolkien 2023 -calendar<\/p>\n
Tested: Bing, DuckDuckGo, Google Search, Google Scholar, Carrot2, eTools, Amazon.uk, YouTube, Yandex, Listen Notes (podcast search), Amazon, Internet Archive (\u201ctext contents\u201d), Yahoo Search.<\/p>\n
Results: The following still respect the minus sign:<\/p>\n
* Google Search.<\/p>\n
* Carrot2.<\/p>\n
* eTools.<\/p>\n
* Google Scholar (though there\u2019s strange behaviour with this search \u2013 only two rather random results and a link to \u201csee all\u201d).<\/p>\n
* YouTube, but only if you do it as\u2026<\/p>\n
Tolkien 2023 NOT -calendar<\/p>\n
All the others failed. Yandex is unusable these days due to constant complex captchas, so couldn\u2019t be tested. Amazon.uk doesn\u2019t respect the \u2013 sign either, and lack of filters make it impossible (for instance) to remove all large-size headphones that use the infernal bluetooth for wireless connection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A quick test to see which search-engines still respect the \u2013 minus sign, commonly used to exclude search results containing …<\/p>\n