Re: Where can you buy detached components?

Mr Linux Guy wrote:
[...]was wondering where you could buy electronic components
[...]in Paris, France.

DaveC (who stripped out attribution) wrote:
I don't read much French,

I only speak American--so I'm in the same boat.

but I did a simple Google search

Actually, what you did was an *Advanced* search.
Man, **those** URLs *do* get verbose.

and came up with this:
<http://tinyurl.com/yrsknn>

Note to Dave: Noble effort, but...
1) **site:** only works on the Web search engine;
The *Groups* equivalent is **ingroup:**
....and the period you included isn't necessary.

2) Google will find the words
--even if you spell the words using only ASCII characters.
(A regular e will work for the accented e
--and it shortens the URL by 3 characters.)

3) Just a general hint
(Google is currently dicking with their Groups search engine
and has it all screwed up):
Phrases: (All of these would have worked 2 weeks ago.)
http://groups.google.com/groups/search?q=ingroup:fr+ventes.de.composants+electroniques+paris
-or-
http://groups.google.com/groups/search?q=ingroup:fr+ventes-de-composants+electroniques+paris
-or-
http://groups.google.com/groups/search?q=ingroup:fr+%22ventes+de+composants%22+electroniques+paris
-or-
(Adding the plus sign after the %22
makes all words in the URL Google-searchable.)
http://groups.google.com/groups/search?q=ingroup:fr+%22+ventes+de+composants%22+electroniques+paris

When whittled down to something that **actually works**,
the URL is pretty manageable:
http://groups.google.com/groups/search?q=ingroup:fr+ventes+composants+electroniques+paris
Tweaked to something even more specific:
http://groups.google.com/groups/search?q=ingroup:electronique+ingroup:fr+ventes+composants+paris

....and I agree with Terrell:
Guys that are already at Google to do their Usenet posting
should really give Google's Groups search engine a try FIRST.

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