Here's a treasure - Power Google - online book by McGraw-Hill, published in 2003 and still very relevant. Google has some new features and syntax, but by and large this has very good advice on developing a search strategy, building a query, and evaluating results.
The Google Logic secion is out of date for use of + (now turns off stemming, or requires that the word be on the page - rather than in the anchor text of a linking page). This book must have predated ~ as the synonym operator since there is no mention of it. There is * as a wildcard word.
"Welcome to Power Google, By Robert Harris, a practical, how-to book about using Google to locate information on the Internet. Below you will find a brief description of each chapter’s content along with two formats in which they can be viewed (Adobe® or HTML). If you do not have an Adobe® Acrobat® reader or would like to update your current reader to the latest version, click on the Adobe® icon below for a free download."