From: Glenda Rubin (rubin@uclink.berkeley.edu)
Date: Fri Aug 08 2003 - 15:06:48 PDT
Sorry, maybe I don't understand the concept, but I don't get your point -
Passover and Easter aren't synonyms.
Glenda
At 8/8/2003 02:27 PM, Michael Sholinbeck wrote:
>Yes, this looks nice, but:
>
>Start fooling around with it and you will soon wonder just how on earth it
>works. Who made the dictionary of synonyms?
>Why does a search for passover and easter get 141,000 hits, but a search for
>~passover and easter get 139,000 hits? Shouldn't a synonym search get more?
>also, passover and ~easter gets 246,000; ~passover and ~easter gets 247,000.
>...Once a jillion of us start fooling with this, I'm sure more intersting
>things will come up.
>
>Michael Sholinbeck
>Document Delivery/Reference Librarian
>Public Health Library
>University of California, Berkeley
>1-510/642-2511; 1-510/642-7623 (fax)
>msholinb@library.berkeley.edu
>http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/PUBL/
>
>
>Aron Roberts wrote:
>
> > Several days ago, the popular Google search engine added a very
> > useful new search operator. When you preface a search term with the
> > tilde (~) symbol, Google will search on both your term and its
> > synonyms. For example, searching on:
> >
> > webdav ~tutorial
> >
> > will find Web pages which contain or refer to primers, help
> > documentation, reference guides, and other 'tutorial-like' materials
> > for the WebDAV protocol, not just pages which contain the word
> > "tutorial" itself.
> >
> > In addition, as one Weblog author notes, this new search operator
> > has another useful function:
> >
> > >... the new tilde operator is the next best thing to wildcard
> > >searches (Google's Achilles' heel). Now, instead of typing
> > >
> > >library OR libraries OR librarian OR librarians
> > >
> > >you can type
> > >
> > >~library
> > >
> > >and your results will include all the above words [as well as
> > >"archive", "archives", and similar terms - Aron].
> >
> > The following page provides more information on this and other
> > advanced search operators in Google:
> >
> > Google: Advanced Search Made Easy
> > http://www.google.com/help/refinesearch.html
> >
> > FYI.
> >
> > Aron Roberts
> > Workstation Software Support Group
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