You can use punctuation in your searches to filter the results that you see in Trends.
| Search term | Type of results that you see |
|---|---|
| tennis shoes |
Results can include searches containing both 'tennis' and 'shoes' in any order. Results can also include searches such as 'red tennis shoes', 'funny shoes for tennis' or 'tennis without shoes'. |
| 'tennis shoes' | Results include the exact phrase inside double quotation marks, possibly with words before or after, such as 'red tennis shoes'. |
| tennis + squash | Results can include searches containing the words 'tennis' OR 'squash'. |
| tennis -shoes | Results include searches containing the word 'tennis' but exclude searches with the word 'shoes'. |
| tennis - shoes | The hyphen (-) is ignored and the results are treated in the same way as the first example: tennis shoes. |
| center + centre + centere | Results include alternative spellings like 'centre' or 'centere', and common misspellings such as 'centere'. Trends considers each version of a word to be a different search, including misspellings. |