Michael D. Crawford ([EMAIL PROTECTED]; Friday, January 17, 2003 3:54 PM):
> I do understand why you wouldn't include a literal "+" in the search terms, but > apparently when someone searches for "c++" on google at least, the +'s are > escaped and rendered as %2B. > So the search term in the url is c%2B%2B. Well, but if you were searching on AltaVista for "C++ programming" you would get anything related to programming. So you'd use "+C++ +programming" to tell it to include those terms in every page. These '+' characters would be escaped, but do not distinguish, e.g. "Programming" from "+Programming" meaningfully. OTOH, Analog could be a little smarter and only ignore preceeding '+' symbols, rather than any. But then, on Google, you might use a '-' to concatenate two words that you want to be a phrase (e.g. "Mac-OS-X") when actually those could match spaces in the page Google returns. This is the kind of stuff Analog's heuristics are trying to account for. -- Jeremy Wadsack Wadsack-Allen Digital Group +------------------------------------------------------------------------ | TO UNSUBSCRIBE from this list: | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/unsubscribe.html | | Digest version: http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help-digest/ | Usenet version: news://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.analog.general | List archives: http://www.analog.cx/docs/mailing.html#listarchives +------------------------------------------------------------------------
