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google power search

The trouble with something so familiar as the Google search engine is the iceberg principle. You only use the bit you can see, the obvious 10% of the capacity.

Once you confine yourself like that, then the results you’ll be getting will be similarly restricted. If you know what you’re doing though, you’ll find what you really need, rather than something that’s been better search-optimised, and you’ll find it quicker.

Google has quietly dropped another search operator, the tilde (i.e. ~) search operator.

Google Operating System blog noticed the lack of support for the tilde operator over the weekend. Reportedly, Dan Russell, a Search Research Scientist at Google, confirmed Google dropped the feature. Dan said the feature was dropped to “lack of use.”