[vezycash]

Google randomly ignores "search term in quotes".

Related:examplesite.com used to work well. Now, it's better to use sites like alternativeto.net.

~phrase is unnecessary because but google searches for synonyms by default

phrase1 + phrase2 - Google randomly ignores it. I use it this way +compulsoryTerm

Although rare, there are things I simply can't find using Google. But Bing would. If Google keeps it up, other search engines would benefit.

[EE84M3i]

I would be interested to see an example of it ignoring quotes silently because I've heard a lot about it. I use search terms in quotes relatively often and have never noticed that, although it does the 'did you mean without quotes' thing all the time.

In the past for very long tail content, I've found Bing and Yandex to be useful. Yandex image search in particular is often better than Google or Bing, particularly if you are searching for people because it does some facial recognition.

[_zllx]

Doing some "related:" queries returns some interesting results that look human-curated and out-of-date. related:google.com shows results for Yahoo, Bing, AOL Search, and HotBot (which used to be a search engine, but the brand is now for a VPN provider).

[chris_f]

That is great! It's like a search engine blast from the past.

Also interesting, related:bing.com gives me no results.

[stanislavb]

Ah, I never knew "related:" existed. Also, saashub.com could be used as an alternative to alternativeto.net :)