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If "the customer's always right", then, for the current search situation, you have to ask: Who's the customer? -- P.S. Google: I'd accept, gratefully, as a

If "the customer's always right", then, for the current search situation, you have to ask: Who's the customer? -- P.S. Google: I'd accept, gratefully, as a stopgap, being able to specify multiple "site:foo" parameters. I don't know what the computational (or financial) impact to you would be. (So far, I've held off trying browser extensions to accomplish this, but I guess I can start looking for one having a good reputation.)

pasbesoin 16y ago
Just tried DuckDuckGo on "windows autorun". What a world of difference. Top two links are recent news, and the third link is the authoritative KB from MS on disabling/re-enabling. I tried DDG some months (years?) ago, but it was too inconsistent. Maybe it's ready for prime time, or at least the Late Late Show, now. Jazz hands!
vanessafox 16y ago
If you want this ability for one-off searches, you can use the OR operator. site:http://news.ycombinator.com http://news.ycombinator.com OR site:stackoverflow.com <query> I don't know if there's a max # of sites you can add. I tried it with three and it seemed to work great. http://www.google.com/search?q=site:searchengineland.com+OR+site:ninebyblue.com+vanessa+fox#sclient=psy&q=site%3Aninebyblue.com+OR+site%3Asearchengineland.com+OR+site%3Aradar.oreilly.com+%22vanessa+fox%22&fp=649be7798417a8e0 http://www.google.com/search?q=site:searchengineland.com+OR+... (Yes, I did an ego search. Isn't that the best way to know if the results are likely accurate? :) If there's a set of sites you want to search through often, you can set up a custom search engine for what you describe. For instance, see this page: http://www.toddnemet.com/ http://www.toddnemet.com/
- pasbesoin 16y ago
  I've tried that [before], but with multiple parameters, I simply got zero results. I then enclosed the site:foo OR site:bar within parentheses, leaving the rest of the query outside parentheses. Whichever site:foo came first would be matched, but only it appeared to be matched. Subsequent site:bar, etc. parameters did not produce any matches in the results. I'll have a look at your links, in a minute -- probably should have done that first. EDIT: Well, your second link sure works. I wonder what I was doing wrong. When I saw someone else('s or s') comments online to the effect that it didn't work, I assumed that was why my own experience failed. I'm in serious need of some coffee, at the moment. Thanks for correcting my mis-impression; I look forward to straightening it out in my mind and taking advantage of this feature.
  - vanessafox 16y ago
    It could be that you were using a lowercase or. It has to be all caps OR. (lowercase or just uses "or" as one of the search terms, which I think actually is considered a stop word and is then ignored.) And I'm always a supporter of the more coffee recommendation.

pasbesoin 16y ago

Just tried DuckDuckGo on "windows autorun". What a world of difference. Top two links are recent news, and the third link is the authoritative KB from MS on disabling/re-enabling. I tried DDG some months (years?) ago, but it was too inconsistent. Maybe it's ready for prime time, or at least the Late Late Show, now. Jazz hands!

vanessafox 16y ago

If you want this ability for one-off searches, you can use the OR operator. site:http://news.ycombinator.com http://news.ycombinator.com OR site:stackoverflow.com <query> I don't know if there's a max # of sites you can add. I tried it with three and it seemed to work great. http://www.google.com/search?q=site:searchengineland.com+OR+site:ninebyblue.com+vanessa+fox#sclient=psy&q=site%3Aninebyblue.com+OR+site%3Asearchengineland.com+OR+site%3Aradar.oreilly.com+%22vanessa+fox%22&fp=649be7798417a8e0 http://www.google.com/search?q=site:searchengineland.com+OR+... (Yes, I did an ego search. Isn't that the best way to know if the results are likely accurate? :) If there's a set of sites you want to search through often, you can set up a custom search engine for what you describe. For instance, see this page: http://www.toddnemet.com/ http://www.toddnemet.com/

pasbesoin 16y ago
I've tried that [before], but with multiple parameters, I simply got zero results. I then enclosed the site:foo OR site:bar within parentheses, leaving the rest of the query outside parentheses. Whichever site:foo came first would be matched, but only it appeared to be matched. Subsequent site:bar, etc. parameters did not produce any matches in the results. I'll have a look at your links, in a minute -- probably should have done that first. EDIT: Well, your second link sure works. I wonder what I was doing wrong. When I saw someone else('s or s') comments online to the effect that it didn't work, I assumed that was why my own experience failed. I'm in serious need of some coffee, at the moment. Thanks for correcting my mis-impression; I look forward to straightening it out in my mind and taking advantage of this feature.
- vanessafox 16y ago
  It could be that you were using a lowercase or. It has to be all caps OR. (lowercase or just uses "or" as one of the search terms, which I think actually is considered a stop word and is then ignored.) And I'm always a supporter of the more coffee recommendation.