As a user, I can’t think of a time when censoring a term has given me relevant results. It just serves to frustrate me. If Google doesn’t want to return a blank page, they ought to have a small section at the top that says something like, “No results found for [search terms]” and then another section following that clearly states it is excluding a term.
FaceBook Marketplace and Craigslist do something similar when there are no local results. They show results from outside your area but clearly call it out.
FaceBook Marketplace and Craigslist do something similar when there are no local results. They show results from outside your area but clearly call it out.