[thelist] How to search for a word + dash in google?

[John C Bullas (soton.ac.uk relay)]

At 11:44 16/12/2003, you wrote:
>I want to search for the phrase "passwd-" but get results if I'd just
>searched for "passwd", I release that this is because the "-" has a special
>function on google, but can anyone suggest a method of forcing it's
>inclusion in the search text itself?
>
>I've tried (amongst others):
>passwd-
>passwd--
>passwd+-
>passwd+- -passwd

http://tinyurl.com/zg1j

any good?

- has a function when LEADING not trailing ;)

FB

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