Re: Search accuracy

Benjamin Franz (snowhare@netimages.com)
Fri, 5 Apr 1996 06:16:16 -0800 (PST)


On Thu, 4 Apr 1996, Nick Arnett wrote:

> I'm not sure this ends up being true; even though each search may add just
> one term, people often are building multi-word searches through trial and
> error. There aren't many one-word searches that yield useful results on
> the big Web indexes, in my experience.

It seem probable that the usefulness of single word searches varies
about inversely with general interest of the topic.

-- 
Benjamin Franz
"Who is pondering the fact that a search on the word 'snowhare' returns 
almost *nothing* but pages by or related to himself."