<p dir="ltr">You've got two things working against you here:</p>
<p dir="ltr">The minus sign is a signal to remove whatever it precedes from the results. So, when searching for option flags, remove the - or -- characters. </p>
<p dir="ltr">A while back, Google demoted quotation marks. Previously, it denoted a required term. Now, it only signals an especially desired term. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Bing is much better than it used to be, so it is my fallback choice. Still, I think that Google still has the best general purpose search engine. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Thomas </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 13, 2014 6:29 AM, "Jeff Jensen" <<a href="mailto:jjensen@apache.org">jjensen@apache.org</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">I've have been using <div><a href="https://www.ixquick.com/" target="_blank">https://www.ixquick.com/</a> <br></div><div>recently. I made it my home page and default browser search engine.</div><div><br>
</div><div>I like the theory and it works well (searches multiple engines simultaneously and anonymously). However, sometimes I found the results insufficient and then tried Google... yes, the Google ones were usually better in those situations. "da goog" just knew better what I was looking for... either that or the link ranking of mashing multiple sites reduced the more relevant links.</div>
<div><br></div><div>It has a sister site:</div><div><a href="https://startpage.com/" target="_blank">https://startpage.com/</a><br></div><div>that searches anonymously as ixquick does but uses only Google.</div><div><br>
</div><div>Refer to the About links on each site for info...</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 10:16 PM, Michael Moore <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stuporglue@gmail.com" target="_blank">stuporglue@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Google has been letting me down tonight.<br><br></div><div>I'm trying to use lastools and, I'm trying to understand what the "-use_lax" flag does, so I wrap it in quotes, and search for it in Google and don't get anything useful back. <br>
</div><br>I expected to get results that had the exact phrase "-use_lax" somewhere on the page when using quotes around my search terms.<br><br>I tried DuckDuckGo and Bing and got similar results. <br><br></div>
I found what I needed for tonight, but I'm looking for recommendations for next time Google deserts me. <br><br>--<br></div>Michael<br></div>
<br>_______________________________________________<br>
TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota<br>
<a href="mailto:tclug-list@mn-linux.org" target="_blank">tclug-list@mn-linux.org</a><br>
<a href="http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list" target="_blank">http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list</a><br>
<br></blockquote></div><br></div>
<br>_______________________________________________<br>
TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota<br>
<a href="mailto:tclug-list@mn-linux.org">tclug-list@mn-linux.org</a><br>
<a href="http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list" target="_blank">http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list</a><br>
<br></blockquote></div>