Re: default.exe... my computer doesn't like it :)

[Nicholas Jankowski]

On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 4:01 PM, Sergei Steshenko <address@hidden> wrote:

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>On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 9:55 PM, Sergei Steshenko <address@hidden> wrote:
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>>>On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 3:40 PM, Michael Goffioul <address@hidden> wrote:
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>>>On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Nicholas Jankowski <address@hidden> wrote:
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>>>>last - does anyone know how to google search for "default.exe" without getting results for "default exe"? 
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>>>>Use double-quotes.
>>>>nope. Google killed the usefulness of that a while ago. did you try it?
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>>Then try in Yandex: http://yandex.ru/yandsearch?text=%22default.exe%22&site=®ion_name=&rstr=&zone=all&wordforms=all&lang=en&within=0&from_date_full=&to_date_full=02.04.2014&from_day=&from_month=&from_year=&to_day=2&to_month=4&to_year=2014&numdoc=10&lr=101512 .
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>>The query will display results in English.
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>or ddg
>https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22default.exe%22
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AFAIR, decent search engines have advanced search menu, and typically there is a possibility to demand exact text match.

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Yes, I myself use duckduckgo a lot, and sometimes Yahoo search too - lately the Yahoo search behaves IMO more decently.

recalling the good ol' days when we'd argue about the supremacy of Altavista or Infoseek...