Re: You Don't Have to Be Nuts to Be a Mathematician ...

From: David Bernier (david250_at_videotron.ca)
Date: 07/15/04 

Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 10:36:42 -0400

David C. Ullrich wrote:

> On Thu, 15 Jul 04 11:44:43 GMT, jmfbahciv@aol.com wrote:
>
>
>>In article <1089893941.5200@athnrd02.forthnet.gr>,
>> Ioannis <morpheus@olympus.mons> wrote:
>>
>>>David C. Ullrich wrote:
>>>
>>>[snip]
>>>
>>>
>>>>Just to verify I'd get nothing I added a random word
>>>>
>>>>"Charles Dickens " -novel -novelist -English -author gazebo
>>>>
>>>>and I got 300 hits - at this point I gave up.
>>>>
>>>>How does one say "not the one you think I want" in google?
>>>
>>>[snip]
>>>
>>>ROTFL :-)
>>
>>You may laugh <grin> but this was always a pesky problem
>>w.r.t. user interfaces and translations in the computer
>>biz. Not knowing anything about the program or the
>>programmers of google, I'd start with a
>>
>>"Charles Dickens " .NOT. "novel novelist English author"
>>
>>The list of -tokens is not well-phrased.
>
>
> Well _that_ doesn't mean what you thought it did.
> I used that for the query, got no hits, clicked on
> Advanced Search. That appeared with
>
> NOT novel-novelist-English-author
>
> in the "with ALL of the words" box
>
> and
>
> Charles Dickens

I tried my luck with www.canada411.com .
There is listed a "Dickens, Charles" in British Columbia....

David Bernier