[Tfug] Google wizard?

[Bexley Hall]

Hi Adrian,

On 12/9/2012 5:44 PM, Adrian wrote:
> On Sunday 09 December 2012 14:49, Bexley Hall wrote:
>
>> Anyone have any tricks as to how to coax google to give
>> results for "PCI" cards but *exclude* PCIe?  I can't
>> seem to come up with a good set of search criteria
>> that I can convince google to *rigidly* enforce
>> (it keeps wanting to do fuzzy matching to "help" me!)
>>
>> E.g., 'PCI -PCIe -PCI-e -"PCI Express" -PCI-X -"PCI X"'
>> starts to become alphabet soup (google seems to ignore
>> or downplay terms as the number of criteria increases)
>
> -"pcie" as well as any other similar matches you may want to exclude.
>
> The - is an exclude from search. The " tells Google not to expand/substitute
> the search phrase.

Yes, that's what I've done (see above) -- though I haven't
thought it necessary to quote anything that *didn't* include
whitespace (e.g., -PCIe instead of -"PCIe")

And, it seems that adding "too many" (whatever that means)
terms/conditions ends up having less effect than expected.
E.g., -"PCI-Express" -PCIe -"PCI-X" -network...

> You may still get some (via pages that have no PCIe but
> the link to those that do), but that should generally eliminate it.

Ah!  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  why is this?

> Eg. the search { pci dual network card } brings up results:
> - Intel EXPI9402PT Pro/100 PT Dual Port (PCI-Express card)
> - Dual-NIC PCI Card - Untangle Forums
> - Intel Pro/1000 MT Dual Port Server Adapter (PCI-Express card)
> - Intel PWLA8492MT PRO/1000 MT PCI/PCI-X Dual Port Server Adapter
> - HP.com - networking - HP NC364T PCI Express Dual Port Gigabit (PCI Express
> card)
> - HP 10 GbE PCI-e G2 Dual Port Network Interface Card - Gigabit
>
> While { pci dual network card -"pcie" -"pci-x" } brings up:
> - Compaq NC3134 Dual Base Fast Ethernet 10/100 NIC
> - 2-Port 10/100 PCI Network Adapter
> - D-Link DFE-530TX+ 10/100
> - Cisco WMP600N Dual-Band Wireless-N PCI Network Adapter
> - Amazon.com: Dell - Dell Dual Port Pci Ethernet Card: Computers
> - Adding the second NIC
>
> http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=136861

I'll chase down the URL -- and see where *it* takes me.  Thanks!

--don