Found this helpful. Enjoy!
http://www.twitip.com/7-%E2%80%98sec...witter-search/
Excerpt:
One of the most common way to use Twitter search is to search for hashtags or product names. But the results are very often filled with identical tweets.
So if you want to search for anything about ?American Airlines? but without the re-tweeted stuff
?american airlines? -rt -via