Tim I hope you know not to accept the first selection but to redefine your "Search" by clicking on "Advanced Search" - "advanced" is relative - and replace the "any of the words" option with the "the exact phrase" option - unless of course, you have entered only one word, in which case it had better be something like an APAR number.
For example, >Principles of Operation< (without the ><) yields 1 841 570 as "any of the words" but 1 621 as "the exact phrase". OK, not the best example, but you see the effect of the change in the order of magnitude of the results. There is also the interesting effect that, for example, when you have supposedly, say, 70 results, it drops to, say, 50 by the time you have gone through the pages - odd. Chris Mason ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Henness" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, 03 November, 2006 5:14 PM Subject: Re: LOOKAT > I rarely bother with the "Search" box on www.ibm.com, because it only > rarely comes up with what I'm looking for. I usually get either nothing or > several thousand hits in no particular order. Maybe what I'm looking for > is burried in there somewhere, but can I find it before retirement? > > Tim > > On Fri, 3 Nov 2006 00:58:11 +0100, Chris Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > >Ted > > > >I'm going to make an assumption. I'm going to assume you do - better make > >that "did" at the time you discovered you'd lost the URL - know that LOOKAT > >was a service from IBM. > > > >Thus I keyed www.ibm.com and entered LOOKAT in the Search box. The first > >hit (of 278) was exactly the URL you needed. > > > >It's not what you know; it's if you know where to find it. Of course, you > >also have to know where to look to find the "where"! > > > >How about at least the first sentence as a replacement for your famous > >exhortation? > > > >Chris Mason ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
