Nice

is the opposite for + like +includeTerm such that includeTerm must be included?

This works on DuckDuckGo.

Man, I've seen some specific niches on the internet, but this takes the cake.

and +word to include the word in the results

-site:pinterest.com works on Google

You Should Know: there are search engines out there that do respect them and factor them in

I feel like they're sort of universal to the point if you have to ask that question then what you're using now (if you're asking from $ having experience of it not working) isnt worth it and to try a different search engine.

I dont want to say what I use, vut I hope I'm making sense. Just try whatever you are cool using but try examples like with "keyword" or -dontIncludeTerm or +includeTerm

All of them.

e: perhaps I sounded flippant. I didn’t mean to, so let me apologise and clarify: this has been a thing for a long time, and every search engine implemented this a long time ago. It’s pretty standard. There are some regex style things you can do in pretty much all of them, too, partly because it’s sort of free in the codebases they all use deep down. I don’t want to be too technical, but the ‘x NOT y’ thing is so basic, all search engines of any size (even homegrown ones on one-off websites that aren’t using SDKs for whatever reason) implement this basically on day 1. I’ve implemented this myself in homespun proprietary search engines within homespun proprietary software decades ago.

There are a bunch more ‘commands’ like this, many of which are universal.

I was wondering this, feels scary to not NOT for some reason