Re: google secrets (from what's up with all the attitude)

2006-11-06 Thread Andrew Ritchie
cothrige wrote: > The only observable difference seemed to be that the latter listed a time of .19 seconds whereas the former had .31 seconds. This may mean that the + just takes a tiny bit more time to process, assuming that these numbers mean that. I repeated this with etch and sid each plug

Re: google secrets (from what's up with all the attitude)

2006-11-06 Thread Ralph Katz
On 11/06/2006 08:00 PM, Nate Bargmann wrote: > The biggest help with Google is to quote a phrase--particularly output > from an error message--along with another term like Debian to zero in > on that needle in the Webstack. Exactly. Amazingly effective in many cases. Also useful: (If you forge

Re: google secrets (from what's up with all the attitude)

2006-11-06 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 11/6/06, Nate Bargmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * cothrige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 Nov 06 18:37 -0600]: > * Andrew Ritchie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Nate Duehr wrote: > > > > > >(The "+" is a modifier for Google that allows you to give Google TWO > > >terms to search for together, usu

Re: google secrets (from what's up with all the attitude)

2006-11-06 Thread cothrige
* Nate Bargmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > IIRC, Google made the + the default. I recall using search engines prior > to Google coming on the scene and the + was necessary to ensure both > terms were found in the results. Sadly, some current site specific > search engines are still brain dea

Re: google secrets (from what's up with all the attitude)

2006-11-06 Thread Nate Bargmann
* cothrige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 Nov 06 18:37 -0600]: > * Andrew Ritchie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Nate Duehr wrote: > > > > > >(The "+" is a modifier for Google that allows you to give Google TWO > > >terms to search for together, usually a better result than just a few > > >words and a

Re: google secrets (from what's up with all the attitude)

2006-11-06 Thread cothrige
* Andrew Ritchie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Nate Duehr wrote: > > > >(The "+" is a modifier for Google that allows you to give Google TWO > >terms to search for together, usually a better result than just a few > >words and a single topic. topic 1 + topic 2 type of thing. "rsync" + > >"Debia

Re: google secrets (from what's up with all the attitude)

2006-11-06 Thread Andrew Ritchie
Nate Duehr wrote: (The "+" is a modifier for Google that allows you to give Google TWO terms to search for together, usually a better result than just a few words and a single topic. topic 1 + topic 2 type of thing. "rsync" + "Debian Sarge", you know... that sort of thing. Try it out, you'