Re: My Saddest Post Over?

In message <1190185576.295297.218560@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Gavin Cawley <gcc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes

>Google doesn't like the apostrophe, however I did (of course

ROTFL! RH

Robert, if you check you will find that if you include an apostrophe in an exact search,it doesn't match the word with the apostrophe in it (surprisngly), but it matches it O.K. if you do an ordinary keyword search (i.e. allow the words to appear anywhere), but then the query becomes too vague to be useful. Give it a try.

The ROTFL! referred to your claim you tried various related searches. RH

>) try various other related searches and didn't find anything of
>interest. Note that it also takes time for articles to be indexed by
>the search engine, so I would expect that it is possible to respond to
>a post that would not yet appear given an appropriate query.

>The main point of my post is that RH greatly over estimates the
>abilities of search engines such as Google. They (currently) can only
>search by keyword spotting, not by the meaning of the phrase. It is RH
>that is lazy for not supporting his assertions.

How did you use the advanced search facility? RH

Duh, how do you think I used it, it isn't rocket science? Just because you don't understand the capabilities of Google, it doesn't mean that other people don't either. The query you gave didn't produce a post that supports your assertion, so you were wrong, as usual.

Translation: Doesn't no how to use the advanced search facility. RH


>floccinaucinihilipilification

BTW, my test (above) showed that it can take an hour and a half for a USENET post to be indexed by the search engine.

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