[OT] hopefully easy question

[William A. Mahaffey III]

On 06/23/15 10:08, Brian W. wrote:
>
> Doesn't the Google tactic of -negatestring work?
>
> On Jun 23, 2015 7:58 AM, "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam at hiwaay.net 
> <mailto:wam at hiwaay.net>> wrote:
>
>
>
>     I am looking on Ebay for a battery for an older laptop I have. I
>     used the following search, assembled in their search bar:
>
>
>     http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&_sop=15&_nkw=compaq+presario+v5000+battery&_ipg=200&rt=nc
>
>
>     This turned up a bunch of chargers 1st, which I don't want. Is
>     there a way to add a 'negate' to the search string ? I tried
>     adding '+(!charger)' to the URL text-string & got *only* chargers.
>     FWIW, I am doing this under FBSD 9.3R, XFCE desktop, firefox, all
>     FreeBSD, just to make it peripherially on topic :-) .... TIA for
>     any (quick, don't bang any heads on walls over this) clues.
>
>
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>
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I never heard of that Google tactic, sorry :-/ .... Is that in the 
search bar or the URL string ? TIA & thanks :-).


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	William A. Mahaffey III

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	"The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war
	 ever devised by man."
                            -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.