Re: [TCLUG:5072] [Fwd: Happy Easter]

[Dan Middleton <middle@cs.umn.edu>]

Have you tried \.

On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Brady Hegberg wrote:

> I especially love www.google.com/linux which allows you to search for Linux 
> specific information.
> 
> I still haven't figured out how to search for words with periods in them 
> though.  Searching for "libgdk_imlib.so.1" is the same as searching for 
> "libgdk_imlib AND so AND 1".  It usually finds good results anyway though 
> so this isn't a huge problem.  Quotes around the word seem to have no effect.
> 
> 
> >Anyone check this site out yet. My Dad sent me this and it looks pretty cool.
> >The TCLUG page came right up when I typed in TCLUG. Modern Technology... WOW.
> >
> >Clay
> >
> >Tom Fandre wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> We've all experienced the problem:
> >>
> >> The automated search engines (like Alta Vista) return 54,321 items "in
> >> no particular order" (many of which are porn sites). But the
> >> human-indexed search services (like Yahoo) often can't find what you
> >> want because they're only able to index a small fraction of the entire
> >> web (since they're human.) So you're left with the uneasy (but probably
> >> ccurate) sense that what you want is out there somewhere ... but you're
> >> no closer to finding it.
> >>
> >> The truly amazing new solution:
> >>
> >> A couple of extremely bright guys at Stanford University solved the Web
> >> Search Engine Problem once and for all, creating the last search system
> >> you will ever need:  http://google.com/
> >>
> >> What's their secret?  They use Linux-based web robots to explore and
> >> index the entire Web. But then they determine the QUALITY of each
> >> resulting link based upon the QUALITY of the OTHER sites that link INTO
> >> that site.  So, THE ONLY WAY a site can be highly rated, under Google,
> >> is if other highly rated sites have links pointing into it!  It's
> >> brilliant.
> >>
> >> This simple concept works SO WELL that every single person I've told
> >> about Google has switched permanently to using Google as their Web
> >> search engine of choice.  It really is that good!
> >>
> >> And of course it's free! ... so give it a shot for yourself!:
> >>
> >>            <a href= "http://google.com" >Google</a>
> >>
> >> Steve Gibson.
> >
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