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All,
I'm hoping the Singletrack geek collective can help me.
Does anyone know how to get Google to search for minus signs in text?
e.g. find exactly "Persistence=-1" (an MQ config term)
Or, are there any other search engines that do allow this type of search?
Thanks.
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reading this:
[url= http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=136861 ]google help[/url]
The hyphen - is sometimes used as a signal that the two words around it are very strongly connected. (Unless there is no space after the - and a space before it, in which case it is a negative sign.)
+"Persistence=- 1"
should work but it doesn't 🙁 sorry.
putting the text you want in speech marks usually works, it should usually bring up the words you are searching for only when they occur as that phrase.
EDIT but that doesn't work either
Doesnt look like Google can do it 🙁
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Web+Search/thread?tid=498a8ba55a3fa414&hl=en
Google is getting really annoying now. It searches for alternative spellings and different verb endings and seems to ignore stuff put in quotes quite a lot. I'm sure it used to be better.
Following soma's link it looks like I'm not the only one
Just rearrange..
Persistence=-1
Persistence + 1 = 0
Simples..? 😀
Have you tried Yahoo?
Real Man - I thought you were on to something there but then realised you were just being a smart arse!!
Yahoo (and Bing - no surprise there) seem to respond in the same way as Google. Seems daft if none of them offer the option. Why can't we just grep the internet??
Does this do anything useful:
[url= http://www.google.com/codesearch ]http://www.google.com/codesearch[/url]
Yes use google code search
Google code search - far from perfect but better than nothing. Thanks.