Synonyms by google (~)

I'm starting to do a lot of keyword research, in a serious way. And I've found this little trick:

if you put ~ (tilde) at the beggining of a word, and with no space beetween, google will give results that match that keyword AND synonyms.

For example, if you search for "~web design", google will throw you:

- Web Design Library
- Graphic design - Wikipedia
- Graphic Design Studio

and if you look at the end of the page, google will give you some related weywords:

- web design designers
- graphic design web design
- graphic designers website
- web design search engine optimization
- graphic web designers
- web design templates
- web design typography
- graphic design freelance jobs

Other example: "~web ~design". In this case, google use synonyms for both words:

- Web Developer


The important thing here is not google giving you some synonyms, but knowing but google consider a synonym for a keyword.

WEIRD!
I was browsing around Google's help directory today or yesterday and saw this as well.

Is this a new feature - or just coincidence you posted about it?

Regardless, it's very useful

Google still does a little bit of synonyming if you dont put a ~, just not as much as this forces it do.

On the flipside, to force google to NOT find a synonym, use +
+web +design