takagi - 11:48 am on Aug 5, 2003 (gmt 0)

However, doing a one word search for "~widgets" actually returns less results than just "widgets"

I see it too, and it's difficult to find out why. First I thought a page needs at least 2 (different?) hits to show up in the SERPs. But I can also find pages with only one hit (maybe anchor text, file-name, etc. also counts?).

For image-search the new search operator is not (yet) working. :(