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Ask HN: Why do search terms like 'Generate -1 to 1' return nothing on Google?

2 pointsby ayepifover 3 years ago
I found it surprising that the following search terms all return no results:<p>&#x27;generate uniform -1 to 1&#x27;<p>&#x27;uniform -1 to 1&#x27;<p>&#x27;bbc -1 to 1&#x27;<p>&#x27;google -1 to 1&#x27;<p>&#x27;-0 to 0&#x27;<p>But<p>&#x27;-1 to 1&#x27;<p>&#x27;X -1 to 1&#x27;<p>&#x27;0 to 1&#x27;<p>&#x27;1 to 0&#x27;<p>Work. Curiously<p>&#x27;-1 to 1&#x27; works<p>&#x27;-0 to 0&#x27; doesn&#x27;t.<p>Does anybody have some working theories for why this might be?

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AkshayPrabhuover 3 years ago
The minus sign excludes a term, for example &quot;-Dell laptop&quot; would result laptops where &quot;Dell&quot; isn&#x27;t in the results.<p>By searching &quot;-1 1&quot; you&#x27;re searching for the term &quot;1&quot;and then excluding all results with the term&quot; 1&quot;.
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