in reply to Very Common Words in Searching

The plain old search at the top of the page works best for simply finding nodes for which you know the title -- and for those types of searches, the "the"'s can be crucial.

Serious searchers use Super Search (which can be easily found by typing "Super Search" into the search box...)

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Re: Re: Very Common Words in Searching
by mischief (Hermit) on Aug 22, 2001 at 12:47 UTC
    The plain old search at the top of the page is the one that I was using. Try this: search for "the flip flop operator", without quotes. Now search for "flip flop operator". See which one has 5 squillion results, and which one doesn't? That's why I was asking for common words (like "the") to be ignored when not in quotes.

    Now, I must have been smoking some good crack or something, because I've just tried it, and unless something's changed in the meantime, this is pretty much what happens when you quote "the flip flop operator" (with quotes). Hmm. Where's my pipe.

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