Google has introduced a new query operator to further aid in searches: the ~ operator. When placed in front of a word, it searches for the word and its synonyms (see browser ~help, for an example). Apparently it only works for queries in English now, but knowing the way Google works it will certainly be added to other languages soon. Very neat!
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Filip Salomonsson said,
It works to some extent in other languages, too. Not much at all, but some search terms do get fairly decent synonym matches in Swedish, for example.
Ronaldo said,
I couldn’t get it to work with Portuguese or Spanish, but I didn’t test with other languages. Anyway, maybe Google is still refining the algorithm.