
Consider the search what the cat dragged in. In this example, Google
will ignore the terms what, the, and in. However, if any of these terms are
searched for individually, Google will accept them as valid terms.
Examples include searching just for the term what; this term produces
over 300,000,000 hits. Another way to force Google into using common
words is to include them in quotes. Doing so submits the search as a
phrase, and results will include all the words in the term, regardless of
how common they may be. A third way to include ignored words in a
search is to precede the term with a + sign, as in the query +and.
Submitted without the quotes,