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[Sridhar Ayengar]

der Mouse wrote:
>> Google makes any word with a  "+" prepended a required wrd in the
>> search.  To preclude a word prepend a "-" to it.
> 
> The latter doesn't work - or at least, it didn't a while ago.  I was
> searching for some music typesetting software called "SMUT".  I'm sure
> you can imagine the false positives; I started adding terms like -pussy
> -beaver to my search to try to suppress them, which simply didn't work.
> 
> And when I reported it to Google, did they fix their bug?  No; they
> added "typesetting" to the list of search targets that suppressed the
> pr0n page hits when searching for "smut" (apparently regardless of the
> search including terms explicitly incidating that the seeker does not
> want them).  They didn't seem to grasp the idea of actually obeying the
> user's stop words, presumably preferring to make users write to the
> directly to be able to find what they're looking for.

If memory serves, Altavista DTRT.

Peace...  Sridhar