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Anonymous
"I ate a hamburger"
if I type ate hamburger in the search engine it won't come up. If I type ate it will come up...and if I type Hamburger it will come up. Is there any tips as to how to do better searches? Or any search engine hacks out there?
Also...is there any way I can set it so that I can see what people are searching for? I'd love to see a history of what keywords have been used. This would be extremely beneficial. Thanks.
Tony
The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice.
Anonymous
rv8
There is an older item which described how to hack search.php to make it search for multiple search terms. I did the hack on my site, and I am happy with it. Note that you must put a comma between different search terms - otherwise it assumes you are looking for a phrase.
There is also a story on Mac OS X Hints which talks about an updated GL search engine, but doesn't show any code. It might be worthwhile tracking down this version of search.php.
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Kevin
Kevin Horton
Anonymous
enigmah
Tony
The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice.
michelle
for example i'll put in a search for New York Yankees, so it does come up with the results, like the first response at the top is their website, but it's not actually their website. When I click it to go there, it goes to like a whole different page that has nothing to do with anything. It's hard to explain, but does anyone understand what I'm saying??
Basically I search for something, it comes up with results that look right, but I click on them and it brings me to totally different websites.
please help me!!!!
ironmax
on my computer whenever i do a search, lets say in google or yahoo, the results of my search do not lead me to the correct site.
for example i'll put in a search for New York Yankees, so it does come up with the results, like the first response at the top is their website, but it's not actually their website. When I click it to go there, it goes to like a whole different page that has nothing to do with anything. It's hard to explain, but does anyone understand what I'm saying??
Basically I search for something, it comes up with results that look right, but I click on them and it brings me to totally different websites.
please help me!!!!
I just did a search for New York Yankees in Google and it came up with the correct results. even when I clicked on the first link result, it brought me to the Yankees MLB home page. So I do not see any problems with it.
I do know that some ISPs are tainting the results if you are using their DNS services, plus their are other considerations that you may want to look at. Like maybe there is a problem within the machine you are using to do the searches. Try using a computer that is not on the same network or using the same ISP. See if your results change. Let us know.
Michael
michelle
ironmax
No i meant that it only does it for me, on my computer. I know that there's a problem with my specific computer, but i just dont know what the problem could be.
Its possible that there maybe a virus of some type on your computer, one that has not been identified by your anti-virus scanner yet. Also might help if you run a malware scan on your system as well. There are plenty of free tools out there to get the job done. I would recommend looking up spybot at http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html and downloading and installing that. Then run it.
Michael
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