I heard that Google also targets your results based on previous searches as well. So if you do a lot of Java programming related searches, you're more likely to get programming-related results. Experience seems to bear this out.
Cheers, Mark On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Jon Kiparsky <[email protected]> wrote: > Most of the time when I'm searching for something java related, the > subtopic is pretty good disambiguation. I mean, 'java concurrency' isn't > likely to come up with anything about the island. As long as nobody comes > up with a library called "Gamelan", I think this should work pretty well. > > Actually, I think it's probably more of a problem the other way around. > When I search for "java currency", all of the results on the first three > pages are about the programming language. If I want to find out what I use > to buy a cup of coffee on the island of Java, I have to search "java island > currency'. It's the rupiah, in case you're wondering. > > > On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 3:55 PM, ebresie <[email protected]> wrote: > >> This is a silly topic but one I thought "where better to ask"... >> >> On periodically searches online (news, blogs, etc) for Java related >> topcis, I always have to filter out things like Java" related countries >> (i.e. Thailand, Jakarta, etc) or Coffee related links (i.e. coffee shops, >> coffee blends, etc). >> >> I have my news aggregate categorized for java specific sites which helps >> some, but on searches that's not always the case. I can do the -Thailand >> type of filtering, but then I have to make lengthy queries which are a >> little bit of a pain to redo each time >> >> I was curious how others work around this. >> >> Eric >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Java Posse" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Java Posse" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Java Posse" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
