~~~ The Sailboat Escape-Pod Option ~~~I'm sorry about that error in my previous post.
I tried various options & combinations, even more than I listed.
However, in order for the new Search Engine to be truly useful, a thread should come up by searching just one word, in this case pod. Sometimes you can only remember one word of a title.
What if I am unable to remember the phrase escape pod?
There are THREE MODES to John's search engine:Using multiple search terms - like escape pod - with the instructions match ANY word - will generally give a BUNCH of results that you do NOT want, in addition to the result that you DO want, as was the case here.match ANY wordescape pod - match ANY word - either escape OR pod, MANY results with "escape" but not "pod"
match ALL words
match EXACT PHRASE
escape pod - match ALL words - only ONE result:~~~ The Sailboat Escape-Pod Option ~~~
www.sit-rep.com | March 16, 2001 | Travis McGee
Google will let you spend HOURS sifting through HUNDREDS of garbage results looking for that "needle in a haystack" thread that you really want. It appears that John has limited the (server intensive) results listed by this new search engine to about the first hundred matches or so, so that a "brute force" method may not work every time.
IMHO, a match ALL words search is generally the best place to start, IF you remember the LEAST COMMON word that really is in the title, AND that single word has MORE THAN three-letters. (See the more complete discussion in post #108)
pod - is a three-letter word, and CANNOT be searched for by itselfescape pod - is one "work-around" that will work
sailboat pod - is another.
option pod - also worksOTHER, non-three-letter word searches that will EFFICIENTLY find your thread are:
sailboat option - works.
sailboat escape - works.
and
escape option - works, but it ALSO finds:Depth leaves sailors few options for escape
.....Times/U.K. | Tuesday, August 15, 2000 | BY MICHAEL EVANS AND IAN BRODIE