to insist that both words MUST be in the result.

That's precisely what AND means.

From their help page:

By default, Google only returns pages that include all of your search terms. There is no need to include "and" between terms. Keep in mind that the order in which the terms are typed will affect the search results. To restrict a search further, just include more terms. For example, to plan a vacation to Hawaii, simply type vacation hawaii.

Unless you're using a stop word (you weren't -- they are common words like I, and, or that are normally filtered out of searches¹, and it'll tell you at the top of the search results), there's no need to force them in. They're in by default.

¹: Though it doesn't seem to be stopping me on anything, these days.

I wonder if this is something I learned using Yahoo.

Patchy goodness! My DH is an adamant member of Ravenclaw, so I'll see what I can find for him. I just pulled my Banzai Institute and Tyrell Corporation patches off my fencing jacket and put them on my gi a couple years ago, but I may change to a Hogwarts patch. I just don't know what house I'm in.

I agree with Jeff on the favorite part of the book, and also the lack of surprise about the plot development.

Friend in LA tells me that the all girl L.A. street gang the "Half-blood Princesses" is suing over the name.

that's about the only solution I can come up with that satisfies me at all, but it had better happen within the first half, and, preferably, the first 1/3 of the book.

I thought that the reason why Dumbledore trusts Snape were revealed in this book? Wasn’t it that Snape confessed to DD all about being a death eater and telling Voldemort about the prophecy (thus being responsible for James and Lily’s deaths) and everything? That could be me making a narrative leap, though.

Need two recs in children's and adolescent literature.

1) A 12 year old boy - loves to read, into a bunch of sports baseball, basketball, football, soccer - also a Nascar fan. Mostly not into SF or Fantasy, but is into Harry Potter. Anything that would make a good Birthday present.?

2) A second birthday - a 15 year old girl, who is mainly into boys, and top 20 MTV music. She used to love to read, but apparently not so much these days. Want to get her a book that will remind her that just cause other things are fun too, books have not stopped being pleasurable.

A 12 year old boy - loves to read, into a bunch of sports baseball, basketball, football, soccer

I remember seeing sports books by Matt Christopher all the time, but I don't whether they're actually any good.

Want to get her a book that will remind her that just cause other things are fun too, books have not stopped being pleasurable.

Does she like magic? I recommend Half Magic by Edward Eager. Because...come on.

Um, for the second one, maybe "Forever"...I liked it when I was fifteen.

Forever is a good one, but it might have squicked me to get it from an uncle or male family friend.

Ben (age 9) devours Matt Christopher books, but I think they might be a little young for a 12 year old.

Maybe Hatchet by Gary Paulsen for the boy.

If he likes Harry Potter, maybe he'll like the Lemony Snicket books? Or Artemis Fowl? Or the other three thousand similar series?