I tried something tonight I hadn't done for years

I put an enquiry into google which didn't give the results I expected. Years ago (I really mean years) you could put 'estate car NOT volvo' and you would get info on all estate cars except Volvos - Now you get only Volvo estate cars.

Has the internet forgotten how to do this, or am I doing it wrong now?

I was using windows 3.1 the last time I tried it on a search engine called Alta Vista which still exists but no longer works with AND-OR-NOT enquiries.

the advanced search option on google will allow you to do this, and it is then possible to see how it works,... I seem to recall the use of a minus (-) sign for NOT

edit try

hthnot volvo

[Edited on 3/11/11 by HowardB]

try " swedish estate car -volvo"

Also Google search bar delivers very different results from google.co.uk home page.

Yeah, "estate car -Volvo" should do it, it's how I've been doing it for the last 15 years anyway

Recently google has been autocompleting my searches, even if I type in the full words of what I'm looking for it will change them to something more popular and often completely different. Very irritating.

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Originally posted by Dusty
Recently google has been autocompleting my searches, even if I type in the full words of what I'm looking for it will change them to something more popular and often completely different. Very irritating.

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but more importantly. Whats your problem with Volvos?

Personally I don't mind the influx of Volvo to this country as long as the work pull their weight and don't line on benefits. ;-)