On 19 Feb 2003 at 3:28, Lawrence Kwan wrote: > On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Iren & Henry Chu wrote: > > When I enter the name "*ist" into the search engine of yahoo.com, it returns > > 700,000+ webpages of various kinds! Why Pentax boss use a computer wildcard > > character to name their camera? > > Actually, this has nothing to do with the wildcard "*", as this character > is ignored by many search engines such as Google. The results would be > the same if you use "ist". The main problem is that "ist" is a common > word in some foreign language such as German. But the same applies for > some other camera names if you just use the camera name by itself, e.g. > "Kiss" "Rebel" "Alpha Sweet".
Or get creative, just insert the line following in the Google search box "pentax ist" -das -auf -der Nada Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications.html
