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Information: 2/11/2005; 2 Comments

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Posted on February 11th

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Comment:: 1
Written by:: John Morales
Posted on:: 2/11/2005 1:29:00 PM

I tried a sample search: "file system object", with this search, one would think that the documentation page for the FileSystemObject would be near the top. It wasn't even on the first page of links.

The more correct search term: "filesystemobject" yielded the target page as the first link, of course. But, shouldn't there be a bit of intelligence to look for searches like this? A "Best Bet" type of search that tries combinations of major tokens in the search terms and if it finds high probability matches, show them as a high probability result?

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Written by:: Arjen
Posted on:: 2/24/2005 6:55:00 AM

At least an improvement, but it just doesn't match google.

I use this site: http://www.msdnsearch.com