Synonyms are other words that have the same or similar meanings. They are displayed as "You could also try..." on the results page.

By default, Google only returns pages that include all of your search terms. There is no need to include "and" between terms. For example, to search for watch product documents, enter:

To broaden or restrict the search, include fewer or more terms.

Google supports the logical "OR" operator. To retrieve pages that include either word A or word B, use an uppercase "OR" between terms. For example, to search for either keyboard or piano, enter:

Every Google search result lists one or more excerpts from the web page to display how your search terms are used in context on that page. In the excerpt, your search terms are displayed in bold text so that you can quickly determine if that result is from a page you want to visit.

Google searches are not case sensitive. All letters, regardless of how you enter them, are understood as lower case. For example, searches for "g-shock," "G-Shock," and "G-shock" all return the same results.

To provide the most accurate results, Google does not use "stemming" or support "wildcard" searches. Rather, Google searches for exactly the words that you enter into the search box.

You can exclude a word from your search by putting a minus sign ("-") immediately in front of the term you want to exclude. Make sure you include a space before the minus sign.

For example, the search:

will return pages about camera that do not contain the word "exilim."

You can search for phrases by adding quotation marks. Words enclosed in double quotes ("like this") appear together in all returned documents. Phrase searches using quotation marks are useful when searching for famous sayings or specific names.

Certain characters serve as phrase connectors. Phrase connectors work like quotes because they join your search words in the same way double quotes join your search words.
Google recognizes hyphens, slashes, periods, equal signs, and apostrophes as phrase connectors.