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[ILUG] Amazing search engines (fwd)

[ILUG] Amazing search engines (fwd)

Philip Reynolds phil at redbrick.dcu.ie
Wed Jun 14 16:02:28 IST 2000


Kenn Humborg's [kenn at bluetree.ie] 22 lines of dribble included:
:>> > 
:>> > Try going to www.altavista.com and searching for 'Dublin wankers'
:>> 
:>> Charming, especially kind of Luke to point that out as he went
:>> there.
:>> 
:>> It should be pointed out that Trinity's Home Page also comes up
:>> when you just enter 'Dublin' by itself.
:>
:>Interesting, going to raging.com (which I thought was just a
:>different front-end to the Altavista engine) gives complete

AFAIK av.com uses OR searching nuless specified otherwise while raging.com
uses AND like google.
Searhing for
+dublin +wankers

Brings up totally different set of results on altavista.com
but the same as raging (or it *should*)

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