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From: "hank" <hanksmith4@earthlink.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: googling tips?
Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 13:52:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <000501c66fbc$9d494f80$4100a8c0@home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6.1.0.6.2.20060504153913.01d899f8@mailhost.math.wisc.edu>

what is the code you used?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Heim" <jheim@math.wisc.edu>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 1:46 PM
Subject: Re: googling tips?


> Another tip:
>
> You can put a google search form on your own homepage so you don't have to
> tab through to the search field on google's homepage each time you want to
> do a search.  For example see my homepage:
>
> http://www.math.wisc.edu/~jheim/
>
> When I want to do a search, I hit the hotkey for returning to my homepage
> and since the search form is the first thing on the page, I'm already in
> the search field. Type in a search term, press enter, done.
>
> Next thing I'm going to do is write a screen scraper program to connect to
> the google server, get search results, parse the results page, and display
> just the results. I'm going to get rid of all that dreck google has added
> over the years.
>
> At 03:18 PM 5/4/2006, Steve Holmes wrote:
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>>Another thing is in the preferences.  You can change the number of hits
>>per page from the default of 10 clear up to 100 and save these as a
>>cooky so it is remembered next time.  When I was using Firefox in
>>Windows with this setting at 100, it made the google pages much easier
>>to use and FireFox loads pages so quickly.  I would think this would be
>>advantagious with a text browser too.
>>
>>On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 10:16:39AM -0700, Sean M McMahon wrote:
>> > I think google has a tips section one tip is use the + (plus) sign 
>> > between
>> > words without spaces to say you want to find info which contains both
>> > words.  Like speakup+debian searches for topics on debian which are 
>> > also
>> > about speakup.  searching for debian speakup, without the plus sign
>> > searches for all documents with speakup and all documents with debian
>> > which may not bive you the specific search you wanted.  hth
>> >
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 John Heim
 ` Glenn at home
 ` Sean M McMahon
   ` Steve Holmes
     ` John Heim
       ` hank [this message]
         ` Hart Larry
         ` John Heim
       ` Justin Ekis
         ` Sina Bahram
         ` John Heim
 ` Janina Sajka
 Dawes, Stephen

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