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Programming Language Popularity
Programming Language Popularity
Posted Sep 27, 2004 21:36 UTC (Mon) by rogerd (guest, #4170)Parent article: Programming Language Popularity
The author did not say how he did it, but how did he Google for 'C programming' without matching every word containing 'programming' and the letter 'C'? I'd hate to think that the C programming result includes the sum of languages containing the letter C...
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Programming Language Popularity
Posted Sep 27, 2004 21:56 UTC (Mon) by Felix.Braun (subscriber, #3032) [Link]
He probably did a phrase search ("C programming").
Programming Language Popularity
Posted Sep 27, 2004 22:07 UTC (Mon) by hppnq (guest, #14462) [Link]
He didn't need to: Google is smart enough, it searches for words. ;-)
Programming Language Popularity
Posted Sep 27, 2004 22:29 UTC (Mon) by hppnq (guest, #14462) [Link]
Since we're on the subject, I've always found it a bit strange that one cannot get partial word hits through the use of wildcards. For instance, Google doesn't seem to support e.g. "one two *ree" (try it, you get a submarine sonar operator's manual, not what you would expect. ;-).Does anyone know why this is, or am I missing something?
(It does support wildcards for words though, so "one * three" returns exactly what you'd expect -- plus a nice calculator. ;-)
Programming Language Popularity
Posted Sep 27, 2004 22:35 UTC (Mon) by Ross (subscriber, #4065) [Link]
Search engines used to support regular expressions. They later switchedto the "AND", "+", and "-" syntax to make things easier for users. I also
believe that their distributed searching engines are happier this way so they
would have trouble switching back if they wanted.
Programming Language Popularity
Posted Sep 28, 2004 0:08 UTC (Tue) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]
You need more horsepower for in-word wildcards and very few users really want them so it was discarded in favor of whole words search and wildcards for words.