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Re: I accidentally started getting more hits-Blew My Mind From Dale on 11 Oct '01 replying to Re: I accidentally started getting more hits-Blew My Mind posted by jwj >>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. I just ran the same search on Alltheweb..results Stella - 624,600 stella - 624,600 "Stella"- 622,764 "stella" - 622,764 lowercase didnt affect the outcome.

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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. > >I just ran the same search on Alltheweb..results >Stella - 624,600 >stella - 624,600 >"Stella"- 622,764 >"stella" - 622,764 > >lowercase didnt affect the outcome.
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