Google Search – How to Disable Bold Fonts in Results

You can simply add additional keywords to your search. Adding keywords will always reduce the amount of results you get since it uses an AND search by default.

To prove that you can do this even when OR is used, try typing the following into Google's advanced search:

• all these words: a b
• one or more of these words: c OR d

You will notice that it results in the following Google query: a b c OR d

Thus, you can conclude that the OR operator only works on single words. In other words, you can think of your query as a b (c OR d).

Furthermore, if you try to include multiple words in one of the OR text boxes (e.g. let's use d e instead of d), you will get the query: a b c OR "d e".

I found an elegant solution to this problem using Google Custom Search.

To see the result in action, go to this custom search engine.

To set up your own version, go to google.com/cse and:

1. click "create a custom search engine"

2. put whatever you want on the setup page, but use a nonexistent url for the "sites to search" box

3. click "next" twice (change the look if you like)

4. click on the link "change the basics" under "next steps"

5. at the bottom of the "basics" page, check "search the entire web but emphasize included sites"

6. uncheck "Show automatic thumbnail"

7. save changes

8. click on the name of your search engine at the top of the "basics" page to use it.

To use your search in a URL (to replace your existing search engine):

http://www.google.com/cse?cx=000628392187335527771:2-d3w-aefr4&q=searchterms

You'll need to replace the cx variable with the value from your own custom search engine and replace "searchterms" with %s or whatever you usually use in your URL to indicate keyword placement.