[ghostly_s]

these operators straight up do not work anymore in any mainstream search engine.

[esseph]

I use them daily with Google. Works great.

You can open several incignito browser tabs to try it out side by side. It's easy to compare!

Note: In the US, doing English searches, using a chrome-based browser. Coming in with Firefox WILL give you different search results. Sometimes I do that intentionally (can be useful).