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Google OR

7th July 2002

Another gem from the Google Weblog—Google not only accepts OR as a search modifier but allows you to use | instead and still get the same results.

Posted 7th July 2002 at 12:11 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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