From: Glenda Rubin (rubin@uclink.berkeley.edu)
Date: Fri Aug 08 2003 - 15:11:41 PDT
Oops!!
I just realized my mistake. Please ignore my message.
Glenda
>Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2003 15:06:48 -0700
>To: Michael Sholinbeck <msholinb@library.berkeley.edu>, Aron Roberts
><aron@socrates.berkeley.edu>
>From: Glenda Rubin <rubin@uclink.berkeley.edu>
>Subject: Re: [Webnet] New Google search operator finds synonyms
>Cc: Micronet-UCB microcomputer support user
>group <micronet-list@uclink4.berkeley.edu>, Webnet-UCB WWW interest group
><webnet-list@uclink4.berkeley.edu>
>
>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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>Glenda Rubin
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Glenda Rubin
Manager, Community Programs and Outreach
UC Berkeley
Office of Community Relations
1925 Walnut Street #1522
Berkeley, CA 94720-1522
Tel: 510-642-7860
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