[WarpCast] eBay searching tip - 5/07/99




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Source: Mike Ruskai (thanny@home.com)
Moderator: Christopher B. Wright (wrightc@dtcweb.com)
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It should be noted that the search engine at 
http://www.ebay.com/ is somewhat broken, and will not search 
for "os/2" properly (it treats the "/" as a word separator). 
As you may have seen, it will turn up anything with "os" in 
the title, along with a "2" as either a separate word, or 
part of a decimal number (such as "Now Synchronize Newton & 
Mac OS -- v 2.1").  What it doesn't turn up is "OS2", which 
is often put in place of "OS/2".

I've found that the best way to find OS/2 items is to do 
three separate searches: "os2", "os/2", and "warp".  

They are in the order of the most chance for non-OS/2 
related hits, though "os/2" is still more likely to turn up 
the most relevent hits.
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