searchengineland.com — It's a long-standing complaint of mine with Google. You can do a search, then repeat the same search and "subtract" a word from your original set, and Google will return more matches -- not less. It shouldn't happen. But does, and here's why.
Subtracting Gives You More?
Consider a search for cars, which reports that there are 546,000,000 pages that match that word:
Now consider a search for cars -used, which should find all the pages that are relevant to the word cars (a set of 546 mill[...]
Oct 22, 2010 View in Crawl 4
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