Darned fuzzy search
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One thing that is driving me absolutely crazy lately is the problem of fuzzy searches. I wish that I could turn off this capability in the web search providers that I use. The thing that is irritating me is that I can compose a very specific search query, and I then get buried in remotely related results that often obscure the specific results that I am seeking. This happens most often when I enter an error message enclosed in quotes. What returns are a lot of pages that are missing some of the words, and other pages where the words are in a different order. You may also get pages with variations in spelling. Try as I might, I cannot get the search provider to return an exact match or nothing. Grrrr...
Fletcher Glenn
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One thing that is driving me absolutely crazy lately is the problem of fuzzy searches. I wish that I could turn off this capability in the web search providers that I use. The thing that is irritating me is that I can compose a very specific search query, and I then get buried in remotely related results that often obscure the specific results that I am seeking. This happens most often when I enter an error message enclosed in quotes. What returns are a lot of pages that are missing some of the words, and other pages where the words are in a different order. You may also get pages with variations in spelling. Try as I might, I cannot get the search provider to return an exact match or nothing. Grrrr...
Fletcher Glenn
I have the other problem - I'm so used to Google et al doing fuzzy searches that it drives me round the twist when a search fails because I misspelled a name by one character - an 'e' for an 'i' for example...
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
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One thing that is driving me absolutely crazy lately is the problem of fuzzy searches. I wish that I could turn off this capability in the web search providers that I use. The thing that is irritating me is that I can compose a very specific search query, and I then get buried in remotely related results that often obscure the specific results that I am seeking. This happens most often when I enter an error message enclosed in quotes. What returns are a lot of pages that are missing some of the words, and other pages where the words are in a different order. You may also get pages with variations in spelling. Try as I might, I cannot get the search provider to return an exact match or nothing. Grrrr...
Fletcher Glenn
It's a damned plague. The closest one I've found to "Do What I Said" is duck duck go. But even they are starting to creep into fuzzy land.
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One thing that is driving me absolutely crazy lately is the problem of fuzzy searches. I wish that I could turn off this capability in the web search providers that I use. The thing that is irritating me is that I can compose a very specific search query, and I then get buried in remotely related results that often obscure the specific results that I am seeking. This happens most often when I enter an error message enclosed in quotes. What returns are a lot of pages that are missing some of the words, and other pages where the words are in a different order. You may also get pages with variations in spelling. Try as I might, I cannot get the search provider to return an exact match or nothing. Grrrr...
Fletcher Glenn
What also drives me crazy(er) is when I do a very specific search and it comes back with "Did you mean xxx", why no I didn't I put quotes around it, underlined it, pub a ribbon around it that's what I freakin want.
VS2010/Atmel Studio 6.1 ToDo Manager Extension The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard. -Steven Wright
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What also drives me crazy(er) is when I do a very specific search and it comes back with "Did you mean xxx", why no I didn't I put quotes around it, underlined it, pub a ribbon around it that's what I freakin want.
VS2010/Atmel Studio 6.1 ToDo Manager Extension The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard. -Steven Wright
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One thing that is driving me absolutely crazy lately is the problem of fuzzy searches. I wish that I could turn off this capability in the web search providers that I use. The thing that is irritating me is that I can compose a very specific search query, and I then get buried in remotely related results that often obscure the specific results that I am seeking. This happens most often when I enter an error message enclosed in quotes. What returns are a lot of pages that are missing some of the words, and other pages where the words are in a different order. You may also get pages with variations in spelling. Try as I might, I cannot get the search provider to return an exact match or nothing. Grrrr...
Fletcher Glenn
We need a "Put fuzzy stuff last" checkbox.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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We need a "Put fuzzy stuff last" checkbox.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
