You've got two things working against you here: The minus sign is a signal to remove whatever it precedes from the results. So, when searching for option flags, remove the - or -- characters. A while back, Google demoted quotation marks. Previously, it denoted a required term. Now, it only signals an especially desired term. Bing is much better than it used to be, so it is my fallback choice. Still, I think that Google still has the best general purpose search engine. Thomas On Mar 13, 2014 6:29 AM, "Jeff Jensen" <jjensen at apache.org> wrote: > I've have been using > https://www.ixquick.com/ > recently. I made it my home page and default browser search engine. > > I like the theory and it works well (searches multiple engines > simultaneously and anonymously). However, sometimes I found the results > insufficient and then tried Google... yes, the Google ones were usually > better in those situations. "da goog" just knew better what I was looking > for... either that or the link ranking of mashing multiple sites reduced > the more relevant links. > > It has a sister site: > https://startpage.com/ > that searches anonymously as ixquick does but uses only Google. > > Refer to the About links on each site for info... > > > > > On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 10:16 PM, Michael Moore <stuporglue at gmail.com>wrote: > >> Google has been letting me down tonight. >> >> I'm trying to use lastools and, I'm trying to understand what the >> "-use_lax" flag does, so I wrap it in quotes, and search for it in Google >> and don't get anything useful back. >> >> I expected to get results that had the exact phrase "-use_lax" somewhere >> on the page when using quotes around my search terms. >> >> I tried DuckDuckGo and Bing and got similar results. >> >> I found what I needed for tonight, but I'm looking for recommendations >> for next time Google deserts me. >> >> -- >> Michael >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20140313/b16e201a/attachment.html>