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Re: I accidentally started getting more hits-Blew My Mind From jwj on 11 Oct '01 replying to Re: I accidentally started getting more hits-Blew My Mind posted by crash >They are not intelligent, sentient and they do not *guess* what >you want - All a search engine does is GUESS what you want. They just guess differently. They are not nearly as presumptuous as humans but they are presumptuous in their own way. On the SEARCHING end, a person can force case sensitivity *sometimes*... Altivista returned the following: Stella We found 401,800 results "Stella" (in quotes) We found 401,800 results "stella" (in quotes) We found 318,999 results stella We found 401,800 results When you *force* the lowercase "s", you get narrower results. But google treated all of the above search terms the same.

Re: I accidentally started getting more hits-Blew My Mind - Andrew - 11/10/01 Re: I accidentally started getting more hits-Blew My Mind - crash - 11/10/01 Re: I accidentally started getting more hits-Blew My Mind - Dale - 11/10/01

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>>They are not intelligent, sentient and they do not *guess* what >>you want - > >All a search engine does is GUESS what you want. They just guess >differently. They are not nearly as presumptuous as humans but >they are presumptuous in their own way. > >On the SEARCHING end, a person can force case sensitivity >*sometimes*... > >Altivista returned the following: > >Stella We found 401,800 results >"Stella" (in quotes) We found 401,800 results >"stella" (in quotes) We found 318,999 results >stella We found 401,800 results > >When you *force* the lowercase "s", you get narrower results. > >But google treated all of the above search terms the same.
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