Filter Google search results for keyword, but only if keyword isn't part of pattern

Question

How can I search Google for a keyword such that the result will show "results containing keyword, but not when found next to a given word".

For example: I want all results which contain "apple", but only if the match isn't equal to "red apples".

The idea is that if a website has a copyright notice in the footer which is something like "© Amazing, inc", I only want to find pages which contain the keyword "Amazing" everywhere in the page except than in the copyright notice.

Answer 1

The minus search operator should do what you want to do:

"apple" -"red apples"