> On Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 11:22 PM Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Perhaps I'm losing my ability to write useful search engine > > queries, but I suspect the "free" search engines are > > evolving to deliver sponsored search results that only > > vaguely resemble my request. > > > > For example, get many many results to a "+word" inquiry > > with no instances of the word I want. There might be a > > pony under all those horses**t results, but I don't have > > the time or stamina to dig. > > > > On google at least, the +whatsit syntax was deprecated some time back. > (Although the -whatsit syntax still works, I think, to filter out sites > that contain that word.) > Now, to set a mandatory search term, you have to enclose it in double > quotes.
And there handling of - mid word is horrid. ecn-sane must be done as "ecn-sane" or it breaks it up into search for ecn or sane Hum, maybe the fixed it, alls I know is I have a bitch getting google to do what google use to do trivially. -- Rod Grimes [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
