New Google search operator finds synonyms

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From: Aron Roberts (aron@socrates.berkeley.edu)
Date: Fri Aug 08 2003 - 12:41:45 PDT

   Several days ago, the popular Google search engine added a very
useful new search operator. When you preface a search term with the
tilde (~) symbol, Google will search on both your term and its
synonyms. For example, searching on:

   webdav ~tutorial

will find Web pages which contain or refer to primers, help
documentation, reference guides, and other 'tutorial-like' materials
for the WebDAV protocol, not just pages which contain the word
"tutorial" itself.

   In addition, as one Weblog author notes, this new search operator
has another useful function:

>... the new tilde operator is the next best thing to wildcard
>searches (Google's Achilles' heel). Now, instead of typing
>
>library OR libraries OR librarian OR librarians
>
>you can type
>
>~library
>
>and your results will include all the above words [as well as
>"archive", "archives", and similar terms - Aron].

   The following page provides more information on this and other
advanced search operators in Google:

   Google: Advanced Search Made Easy
   http://www.google.com/help/refinesearch.html

FYI.

Aron Roberts
Workstation Software Support Group
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