On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 7:00 PM, Tony Harminc <t...@harminc.net<mailto:t...@harminc.net>> wrote: >I don't know about OS X, but recent version of Windows have seriousl >"dumbed down" the search interface to the point that it's almost >impossible to distinguish between file names and approximate strings >inside the files. But for that matter, even Google insists on >searching for things vaguely close to what I asked for, rather then >the actual thing.
Thank you, Tony: I thought it was just me! Drives me nuts. I wind up opening a command prompt and using DIR (or grep, depending). Re Google: use "verbatim" search. Look under "Search tools", then "All results" to find that. I discovered this when I was trying to factcheck a story about an elderly man who got a sensitive part of his anatomy stuck in a chair (I forget why this was interesting at the time, honest!). The word I was searching for has three syllables and begins with "t", but Google kept presenting results that had the word "balls" in them. "Smart" is good - when I search for "5 cups" and it offers "five cups", that's a GOOD thing. But it does go too far sometimes. (Also try searching for a restaurant whose name is Italian in Virginia [VA] - "va" is a common Italian word, so you get tons of hits *from Italy, in Italian*. Adding "language:english" to the search helps there). ...phsiii ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
