[bfish510]

also use - and + to force or remove certain results. (You can use this to limit areas of a website for example)

[curveship]

- still works, but they removed + a couple (few?) years ago. Instead, they recommend you put the single term in quotes, so a search for 'linux +powerpc' would now be 'linux "powerpc"'.

[cynwoody]

That, and they also have the Verbatim option under Search Tools, but using it seems to conflict with other Tools, such as date filtering, and also applies to the whole query, not just one or two terms.

[angersock]

You're making me miss alta-vista. :(