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WaldoJPeabody
Rick, do you know of any search engines that allow an old fashioned biased boolean search?

Rick
WaldoJPeabody My apologies. I did not see your comment until now.
As far as I know, there are no publicly available biased boolean search engines. The use of boolean operators within your search may help limit recall and enhance relevance, but the construction of the query is important.

WaldoJPeabody
Rick Sorry, I suffered a Screen to keyboard interface error there. I meant Unbiased, something that doesn't push ad's or decide how it is going to interpet a logic statement. Back in the day a boolean search such as "Branch" + "Extruded Iron Oxide" + "Aluminum" rendered some interesting results.

Rick
WaldoJPeabody No worries. Either way
the boolean operators and order of the query terms remain important. I've had issue with search engines for years. Since the search algorithms are in a state of constant flux they can produce differing results at any moment regardless of the query. This leads to... View More

WaldoJPeabody
Rick Such it has always been, The more arguments one can make, the better and narrower the results. Take the above for instance, to narrow the search even further one could add "Texas Rangers"

WaldoJPeabody
Rick Now adays, by the time you add "Texas Rangers" the dang things steer you to the baseball team, such was not so back in the day.

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