[Web4lib] Why use the plus symbol before search terms when googling?

[Mark Bardsley]

Jeremy,

What is the difference between searching with "~running" and running? Does
Google not stem unquoted words?

- Mark


On 9/7/05 11:18 AM, "Jeremy Dunck" <jdunck at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 9/7/05, Isabelle Laplante <ilaplante at cdc.qc.ca> wrote:
>> the plus sign is important in languages with accentuated letters.
>> With the plus sign, you tell Google to search "exactly" this sequence of
>> letters (even a sensitivity on uppercase-lowercase).
>> Example in french:
>> +collégial
>> is not the same as
>> +collegial
> 
> And the tilde ("~") is for the opposite: search on "running", and
> you'll find just pages with running, but "~running" searches on stems,
> and so matches "runner" as well.
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