Google is useless nowadays.

[Robert Atkinson]

My favorite has to be:

freebsd -cvs cloop site:freebsd.org

(Just in case you find a lot of relevent info, it might be nice to see
all the cloop pages there)

And if you get a bunch of pages there that just list port details:

freebsd -cvs cloop site:freebsd.org -inurl:/ports/

hth
On 2/5/06, Xn Nooby <xnooby at gmail.com> wrote:
> OK, the "-cvs" does help.  I didn't realize you could filter out things so
> easily.
>
> So from now on, I will just "-junk -garbage" to filter out things that are
> not relevant.
>
> I've heard that if enough people do a search a certain way, Google will
> start doing it by default.  For example, on the latest diggnation episode,
> they talk about how if you search on one of their names, it brings up a
> picture - since Google noticed people always followed a text search by
> clicking on the image links.  Maybe they will start to filter out freebsd
> searches if most of them have the -cvs option.
>
> thanks!
>
>
>
>
> On 2/4/06, Robert Atkinson <phreaki at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Maybe:
> >
> > freebsd cloop -inurl:cvs
> >
> > or
> >
> > freebsd cloop -cvs
> >
> > or a derivative of that would help to get rid of what you don't want.
> >
> > On 2/4/06, Daniel A. <ldrada at gmail.com > wrote:
> > > On 2/4/06, Xn Nooby <xnooby at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On 2/4/06, Daniel A. <ldrada at gmail.com > wrote:
> > > > > That is odd.
> > > > > My search results are always relevant.
> > > > >
> > > > > Maybe you are just not so good at forming a search query?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > That's possible.  How would you word a query to find how people liked
> cloop
> > > > on FreeBSD? Or zisofs on FreeBSD?
> > > >
> > > http://www.google.com/search?q=freebsd%20cloop
> > > http://www.google.com/search?q=freebsd%20zisofs
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