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Re^3: This year I plan to learn about: by gaal (Parson) on Jan 02, 2007 at 11:50 UTC
In Google, you can put your query term in quotation marks: `http://www.google.com/search?q="Perl+6"` [download] The closing quote is actually optional.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: This year I plan to learn about: by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Jan 12, 2007 at 10:51 UTC
Here’s a better tip: use a hyphen, as in [perl-6]. Google interprets hyphens in terms as optional and interchangable with a blank, so this gives you the results of both [perl6] and ["perl 6"]. (But Google already treats whitespace between a word and a number as partially insigificant, so you get largely the same set of results whichever the query you used. The only noticable difference is ranking – things that show up low in the results for both other queries drop even lower in the results for [perl-6].) Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply]
Re^3: This year I plan to learn about: by Ovid (Cardinal) on Jan 02, 2007 at 09:17 UTC
gaal is correct that a space is required, but damn, I wish it wasn't. Even the all-seeing one can't overcome this search problem. Cheers, Ovid New address of my CGI Course.	[reply]
Re^3: This year I plan to learn about: by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Jan 12, 2007 at 11:01 UTC
Have you actually tried it before complaining? Google does just fine even if you leave out the quotes, and as I wrote in another node, you can easily ask it for better precision. Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply]
Re^4: This year I plan to learn about: by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jan 12, 2007 at 11:15 UTC
Have you actually tried it before complaining? Google does just fine ... Yes. And who mentioned google? Contrast: ?node_id=3989;BIT=perl%206 ?node_id=3989;BIT=perl6 Bad decisions are bad decisions regardless of what limited forms of workaround are available to partially alleviate them. Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error. "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority". In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice. "Too many [] have been sedated by an oppressive environment of political correctness and risk aversion."	[reply]
Re^5: This year I plan to learn about: by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Jan 12, 2007 at 11:21 UTC
Oh yeah, I didn’t think of PM itself, d’uh; sorry. Try this. Pity that the regex search seems to have been removed entirely and there’s no way to use any other form of wildcards either… hrmf. Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply]