Tilde operator
When you find that you need to broaden your Web search you may find Google’s tilde operator to be helpful. By using the tilde (~) operator with your search term(s) you will also be expanding your search to include synonyms and words with alternate endings. For instance a search for ~travel will also find terms like traveler’s, traveler, tour, tourism, and vacation. Make sure to place the tilde before the word and do not put a space in between the tilde and the word. You can do this to more than one word in your search.
Comment from notto
Time February 11, 2009 at 5:57 pm
Thanks for the great reminder. I tend to get pretty lazy with how I do web searches sometimes–good reminder that there are tools that make searching more efficient/productive.