OT: I need an Avatar

Fyron · #1 November 8th, 2006, 01:52 AM

You need to add + to all of the words (including first) to do "and" style searches; default is "or" (which is of course useless).

President_Elect_Shang · #2 November 8th, 2006, 02:27 AM

Cool I did not know that, thanks. Does the wild card (*) work?

Atrocities · #3 November 8th, 2006, 03:35 AM

Looks like your old Avatar PES.

Fyron · #4 November 8th, 2006, 03:43 AM

A search for "adaman*" turns up 0 results, so it looks like no.

President_Elect_Shang · #5 November 8th, 2006, 10:24 AM

I�m the last person to say I have a vast well of knowledge on computers (ha-ha-ha) but I was under the impression that the wild card was sort of; universal? Can I say I three times in the same sentence? I just did it twice there. And none there�

It is, or was, my old avatar. SJ found it for me but feel free to answer the question. A lot of tension is off my shoulders since I graduated. Never new how short tempered I had really become. Anyway I am a much cooler customer now.

Fyron · #6 November 8th, 2006, 03:22 PM

I have never seen a web based search that uses wild cards.

President_Elect_Shang · #7 November 8th, 2006, 06:23 PM

Really, like google or yahoo is where I use it and that seems fine.

Fyron · #8 November 8th, 2006, 06:42 PM

Hmm... I don't see any purpose to a wildcard search. A search for "adama*t" is pretty much just a search for "adama", but filtering out any page that doesn't have a t after it somewhere. It doesn't find things with "adamant" in them very well. A search for "adamant * mod" makes the results completely irrelevant compared to "adamant mod". Something like "adamant *" is pretty non-sensical, cutting out ~17% of the results without any apparent rhyme or reason.