Jeff Johnson wrote:
> I have been noticing that when I search for something I can't find it 
> and have to wade through 28 pages of unrelated crap.  The other day I 
> was trying to get a serial port to work in Linux and after about 20 
> pages of search I gave up.

It IS an art.

Ted is the master artist, too.

> Here is an example.  In the year 2000 I was in the San Diego airport and 
> was literally knocked over by a little girl that was yelling at her 
> parents and I noticed was one of the leading gymnasts on the 2000 
> Olympic team.  I couldn't remember her name so I googled:
> 
> "who was on the 2000 women's olympic gymnastic team"

Ask.com was supposed to be good about these types of questions... (They 
used to be Ask Jeeves...)

> Forget about it.  Alltheweb.com and Ask.com, same thing.
> 
> I modified the search to give me the names and a few other things, but 
> no success.

I just searched on

    2000 women's olympic gymnastic team members

and voila! Second link is a set of bios. But I was lucky this time. :)

Whil



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