They're not the same query. They don't return the same results. I seem to recall a dash links words together somehow. So that probably narrows down the search space more.
“powered by” a popular term used in a lot of footers for a lot of different web forums/cmses, I wonder if that has something to do with it?
I had the theory that maybe they are trying to filter it out to frustrate searches for vulnerable CMS
Yea, I was thinking along the same lines. You’ll often see publicly disclosed vulns include google dorks to find vulnerable sites, ex: a google dork to find forums running a vulnerable version of phpbb or something
> x-powered-by header
Is that a thing?
Yeah, it generally returns some variant of information about the technology that is powering a web application such as ASP.Net or express.