Stephan Barth said the following on 01/02/2012 11:25 AM:
In the past few months it often showed articles that didn't apply at all to the problem I was looking for or shows me entries from forums or mailings lists that are older than 5 years and at the same time useful information was listed on the second or even third page.
You can of course limit your search to any time period. There are pre-sets for last year ... month .. You can of course limit your search to a specific domain. You can of course search by giving boolean constrains that implement AND and NOT. Of course it helps to know DeMorgan's :-) And of course you may end up looking at and discarding many hits; this is after all a search engine, not an AI that can read your mind. It can only search given the constraints you give it, and if you give it too liberal constraints because you haven't taken the time to understand how it works, of course you are going to wade though a lot of garbage. Do schools till teach you how to do a library search using the index card catalogue? -- People who love sausages, respect the law, and work with IT standards shouldn't watch any of them being made. -- Peter Gutmann -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org