--- On Sat, 4/6/13, dave <[email protected]> wrote: > I would like to thank everyone for their helpful replies. > Clearly others > are better at google or other search engines than I am. > BTW- google used to take regular expressions and I assume it > still does. > Haven't tried for years. ;-) > Dave
Google, Yahoo and others have really fouled up their search over the years. Putting things in quotes is just about completely ignored. Used to be a quoted string would be searched for *exactly as entered*. Now they'll return bogus hits for the words in quotes in any order and any distance apart. For quite a while they've been automatically correcting the spelling of what you're searching for. Some times that is helpful, but when you're trying to find something on a company or product with a creatively spelled name it can make finding any information impossible. I was trying to see if there's anything online about an old company named FanTac Games. Every search site I tried insisted I just had to mean Fantasy Games and refused to search for FanTac. Gimmie the old days of yore (1996) when a search engine just searched for EXACTLY what the user entered and if it didn't find EXACTLY that it said nothing found. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Minimize network downtime and maximize team effectiveness. Reduce network management and security costs.Learn how to hire the most talented Cisco Certified professionals. Visit the Employer Resources Portal http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/employer_resources/index.html _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
