> -----Original Message-----
> From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf
> Of Chris McSweeny
> Sent: 28 January 2011 14:41
> To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
> Subject: Re: [OT]:: Google is broken again/still
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> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 2:31 PM, RussellMc <apptechnz@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Old thread:
> >
> > New material
> >
> > If you GG
> >
> > "the FSM" -> 310,000 hits
> >
> > BUT
> >
> > "the FSM" =A0-"flying spaghetti monster" =A0-> 1,080,000 hits
> >
> > !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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> I think you're misunderstanding how google works. In the first case
> it's finding every page with that exact wording in it. In the second
> case it finds all of the same pages, but also all of those with your
> second phrase in. It is an OR rather than AND function.
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The negation on the second term should tell Google to return no results tha=
t include this term, so you would expect fewer results.

http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=3Den&answer=3D1368=
61


Using single quotes appears to give results more in line with expectations,=
 but Google definitely specifies double quotes for a string search.

Regards

Mike

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