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Google's AROUND Operator for Proximity Search
- eli 16y agoNeat. I've been waiting a long time for them to start implementing all the advanced operators from Alta Vista ;)
- JustinSeriously 16y agoI was about the say the same thing, but about Infoseek.
- JacobAldridge 16y agoAnd I did say the same thing, not two hours ago! http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1983568 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1983568
- dinedal 16y agoAnother thing to add the the Google-Fu toolbox. I wish I had this a bunch of times, since sometimes blogs will appear in search results that mention two topics I'm interested in, but not in the same article.
- nitrogen 16y agoThere was some ancient DOS "e-book" software I had as a young kid that had something like this (e.g. Find "Jacob" within 32 words or 6 verses of "Esau"); finally I know how to do the same thing with the web.
- eel 16y agoOne of the classic papers on sentiment analysis utilizes this operator (in 2002, it was AltaVista's NEAR) in the algorithm. "Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down? Semantic Orientation Applied to Unsupervised Classification of Reviews" by Peter Turney is the paper if anyone is curious.
- jeffreyrusso 16y agoWow. I'm a total search geek and I missed this one. Radian6 has a similar feature, but that's the only place I've ever seen something similar.
- wslh 16y agoI really missed Altavista's NEAR operator, it was an ad-hoc page rank. Now I have new hopes with Google's late operator.