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Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> I'm sure Google had to add a special case in order to find "C++". Or maybe
> it uses the sheer amount of results having it. It would usually ignore that
> punctuation.
I imagine so too. In the early days, you had to search for "dotnet", which I
think is still out there to a great extent.
And of course you *still* get collisions with all the sites that talk about
yiddayadda.net.
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There's no CD like OCD, there's no CD I knoooow!
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Darren New wrote:
> Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
>> I'm sure Google had to add a special case in order to find "C++". Or
>> maybe it uses the sheer amount of results having it. It would usually
>> ignore that punctuation.
>
> I imagine so too. In the early days, you had to search for "dotnet", which
> I think is still out there to a great extent.
In the early days...
"the" is a common word so it was ignored from your query
"who" is a common word so it was ignored from your query
No results.
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Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> In the early days...
>
> "the" is a common word so it was ignored from your query
> "who" is a common word so it was ignored from your query
>
> No results.
Yes.
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Darren New wrote:
> Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
>> In the early days...
>>
>> "the" is a common word so it was ignored from your query
>> "who" is a common word so it was ignored from your query
>>
>> No results.
>
> Yes.
"yes" is a common word so it was ignored from your query
John
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Doctor John wrote:
> "yes" is a common word so it was ignored from your query
Good luck finding that band that used to have Wakeman in it...
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Invisible wrote:
> Doctor John wrote:
>
>> "yes" is a common word so it was ignored from your query
>
> Good luck finding that band that used to have Wakeman in it...
A keyboard player 'par excellence'. I assume you are aspiring to the
heights of his abilities ;-)
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>>> "yes" is a common word so it was ignored from your query
>> Good luck finding that band that used to have Wakeman in it...
>
> A keyboard player 'par excellence'. I assume you are aspiring to the
> heights of his abilities ;-)
I actually have no idea what Yes sounded like. I just like their cover
art... ;-)
I did, however, see Mr Wakeman live in concert a few weeks ago at
Hampton Court.
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Doctor John wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
>> Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
>>> In the early days...
>>>
>>> "the" is a common word so it was ignored from your query
>>> "who" is a common word so it was ignored from your query
>>>
>>> No results.
>> Yes.
>
> "yes" is a common word so it was ignored from your query
Hey, thanks for picking up on that and hammering it into the greasy spot
where the dead horse used to be. ;-)
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>>>> "yes" is a common word so it was ignored from your query
>>> Good luck finding that band that used to have Wakeman in it...
>>
>> A keyboard player 'par excellence'. I assume you are aspiring to the
>> heights of his abilities ;-)
>
> I actually have no idea what Yes sounded like. I just like their cover
> art... ;-)
>
> I did, however, see Mr Wakeman live in concert a few weeks ago at
> Hampton Court.
The *real* reason "why semantic search reeks": This news post, for
example, has NOTHING TO DO with the stated topic! ;-)
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Well, the future goes for semantic, not literal search.
From a Slashdot comment:
Google is old hat - everyone who is anyone uses Wolfram Alpha.
Alpha-ing "cost of keyboard" [1] gives a price of $47.87 - although if it
has a "market cap" (is that anything like caps lock?) the price skyrockets
to $21.2 billion.
Just be glad you're looking at the cost of a keyboard instead of the actual
value [2] - according to Wolfram Alpha, the value of a keyboard is U+2328.
Although I'm not sure what that is in US dollars, because "convert U+2328
to US dollars" [3] doesn't seem to give anything helpful.
[1] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=cost+of+keyboard
[2] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=value+of+keyboard
[3] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=convert+U%2B2328+to+US+dollars
Yeah, welcome to the future...
Wait, what?
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