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Programming Language Popularity
Programming Language Popularity
Posted Sep 27, 2004 21:56 UTC (Mon) by Felix.Braun (subscriber, #3032)In reply to: Programming Language Popularity by rogerd
Parent article: Programming Language Popularity
He probably did a phrase search ("C programming").
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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.