[PLUG-TALK] forcing dash in search, any engine

John Jason Jordan johnxj at comcast.net
Thu Nov 17 07:35:07 UTC 2011


On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 22:05:52 -0800
Keith Lofstrom <keithl at kl-ic.com> dijo:

> Is there a search engine out there that does not equate " " with
> "-" with "." etc., or one that can be tricked into looking for
> the exact string?

Not that I know of, and I have sure tried to figure out how to get
search engines to honor quotes. I mean, to me quotes mean "exactly this
string, and I mean it." But that's not the way the Google gods see it.



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