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by Drdrdrq 2750 days ago
You can use: ways to make +"nan"

Disclaimer: didn't test it, but I often use this trick to force G to use some word, and to use it exactly as written.

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Google dropped support for + years ago but you could try using -naan and "nan".

https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433

OMG, well that could've been made more known. Wonder what the cumulative cost to my life has been.
Ha, what do you know... :D I actually always use startpage.com, but since they are using Google, I assumed they passed this query to it. What is interesting is that this trick still works on startpage.com while it doesn't on google... I must say I'm even less impressed by Google search than I was before. It's getting worse and worse.
wow I didn't know that