From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 5 16:06:40 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0726E16A420 for ; Sun, 5 Feb 2006 16:06:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from phreaki@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6933643D45 for ; Sun, 5 Feb 2006 16:06:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from phreaki@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 8so937515nzo for ; Sun, 05 Feb 2006 08:06:39 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=YgV15602cP7VQljPeQvqDSPUSaDJm4uzrUiSCGl2kfbbLnuY4L9YmKXwDRUqN/V3BrxLEclee+z/aoKp+zhvidUJBxtsdlQkbDh1sNHxV5c3kvK1Jd4FOYIYrTYx+g+kwBjCQHJJcGRnsmSgu4w7tIPvJtpbcMxsSrC1aCCrXjc= Received: by 10.64.220.17 with SMTP id s17mr104203qbg; Sun, 05 Feb 2006 08:06:38 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.64.53.13 with HTTP; Sun, 5 Feb 2006 08:06:38 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <6fb2b4650602050806o3ba03884hdd2d0564fc621c7@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2006 11:06:38 -0500 From: Robert Atkinson To: Xn Nooby In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <5ceb5d550602040425o1955a021x562c1a664b3a2670@mail.gmail.com> <5ceb5d550602041112n468ed7d2r78aa8e333c04efe7@mail.gmail.com> <6fb2b4650602041228w7ce48291hfb8604bf28e541ea@mail.gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Google is useless nowadays. X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2006 16:06:40 -0000 My favorite has to be: freebsd -cvs cloop site:freebsd.org (Just in case you find a lot of relevent info, it might be nice to see all the cloop pages there) And if you get a bunch of pages there that just list port details: freebsd -cvs cloop site:freebsd.org -inurl:/ports/ hth On 2/5/06, Xn Nooby wrote: > OK, the "-cvs" does help. I didn't realize you could filter out things s= o > easily. > > So from now on, I will just "-junk -garbage" to filter out things that ar= e > not relevant. > > I've heard that if enough people do a search a certain way, Google will > start doing it by default. For example, on the latest diggnation episode= , > they talk about how if you search on one of their names, it brings up a > picture - since Google noticed people always followed a text search by > clicking on the image links. Maybe they will start to filter out freebsd > searches if most of them have the -cvs option. > > thanks! > > > > > On 2/4/06, Robert Atkinson wrote: > > Maybe: > > > > freebsd cloop -inurl:cvs > > > > or > > > > freebsd cloop -cvs > > > > or a derivative of that would help to get rid of what you don't want. > > > > On 2/4/06, Daniel A. wrote: > > > On 2/4/06, Xn Nooby wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > On 2/4/06, Daniel A. wrote: > > > > > That is odd. > > > > > My search results are always relevant. > > > > > > > > > > Maybe you are just not so good at forming a search query? > > > > > > > > > > > > That's possible. How would you word a query to find how people lik= ed > cloop > > > > on FreeBSD? Or zisofs on FreeBSD? > > > > > > > http://www.google.com/search?q=3Dfreebsd%20cloop > > > http://www.google.com/search?q=3Dfreebsd%20zisofs > > > _______________________________________________ > > > freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat > > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-chat-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > > > >