On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 08:20:52AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 10:10:01AM +0100, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote: > > I must admit I skipped ( EEEK =:-o ) the search engine myself, which would've > > been DuckDuckGo (y'all know: Google -- what is Google, anyway? ;-) > > > > Curious as I am, I tried define:bananian with DDG: the second hit is a > > Wikipedia entry for the Banana Pi, which is somehow right, but makes you > > think it is wrong. > > So, what I'm hearing is that Google did a better job (returned better > results) than DuckDuckGo in this case. Either that, or PEBKAC. ;-) PEBMUAAC: Both of us, rhkramer and me used DuckDuckGo: My guess is that the difference lies mainly in the result interpreter's "mental context". For example I've a friend who is obsessed with those little single board thingies, so my mushy wetware has a vocabulary term for each of <fruit>-pi, for some unspecified set of fruit (which definitely includes raspberries bananas and oranges, but possibly also blackberries; no rambutan [1] yet, sorry). Thus my (otherwise pretty poor) pattern matcher recongnized that Banana-Pi entry as relevant wrt "bananian", while it may have worked in a very different was for rhkramer. Me? Google? What /is/ Google, anyway? ;-) Cheers [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rambutan -- t
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