Precede each term you do not want to appear in any result with a “–” sign.
To find pages without a particular term, put a – sign operator in front of the word in the query. The – sign indicates that you want to subtract or exclude pages that contain a specific term. Do not put a space between the – and the word, i.e.
- USE [ dolphins –football ]
- NOT [ dolphins – football ]
So, to search for a twins support group in Minnesota, but not return pages relating to the Minnesota Twins baseball team:
- USE [ twins support group Minnesota –baseball ]
- NOT [ twins support group Minnesota ]
No pages containing the word “baseball” will be returned by the first query.
Find pages on “salsa” but not the dance nor dance classes.
- USE [ salsa –dance –class ]
- NOT [ salsa ]
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