Darren New wrote:
> gregjohn wrote:
>> I think that this shows why I hate semantic search.
> 
> It's usually more of a problem when the search results you're looking for
> aren't actually indexed.
> 
> And my favorite screw-up was naming it "C# .NET"  Hey MS, could you
> possibly have picked a name for a technology that would be harder to
> search for? Maybe something consisting only of hyphens and spaces?

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.

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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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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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