Boolean search on my leaking boat

 The purpose of my search was to find info about my leaking boat.

Search Keys	Purpose of limiter	What did you find when you tried it? How many hits? Was this limiter effective?
AND	To find info about both boats and leaks	A lot of blogs about leaky boats. It was effective
OR	To find info about either boats or leaks	The same information as above
NOT	To find info about sail boats but not leaks	Didn’t work, still got info about both “not” and leaks
“                    “	To find info with “sailboat leaks” in the same sentence order	Got info about sailboat leaks, but only 64 hits, versus the 16 thousand I got with “and”
*	To get either singular or plural forms of sailboat	Got both plural and singular uses
- (minus)	Same as not	Works on google! I got info about sailboats, nothing about leaks
+ (plus)	Same as “and”	Info about both
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near	To find info about sailboats and leaks in the same document, but less than with “and”	Yes, I got info with leaks and sailboats near each other in a sentence.
More + and -	I did +sailboat +leak+ repair -windows	I got exactly what I was looking for. Info about my leaking boat and how to fix it without info on windows leaking.
with	I used sailboat “with” hull	I think it is the same as and considering I got like 9 million hits