> > 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. > I missed that quotes had been demoted. I noticed and remember when they demoted the plus sign, which forced me to start using double quotes instead. Their Advanced Search page (http://www.google.im/advanced_search) still uses wording that suggests it should work, but obviously it's not. > 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. > It has gotten much better, that's for sure. When it started it was such a joke, but I do fall back to it now. > 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). >> > Does anyone else remember the DogPile search engine? It was convenient because then you didn't have to try 3 or 4 search engines to find what you wanted. It seems that that sort of things is starting to make a come back. Thanks for the suggestions. I'll try them out as Google fails me. -- Michael Moore -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20140313/9821b84b/attachment.html>