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[stephen at melbpc.org.au]

Scott writes,

> Google counts worse that my 2 year old nephew .. single quotes aren't
> quotes as far as google is concerned ..

Thanks Scott ..

& mostly right, google uses double quotes and square brackets, although
they also say neither matters much? Agree the counting seems mysterious.

Google write: "As always, we use square brackets [ ] to denote queries, 
so [ to be or not to be ] is an example of a query; [ to be ] or [ not to 
be ] are two examples of queries.

Phrase search ("") By putting double quotes around a set of words, you 
are telling Google to consider the exact words in that exact order 
without any change. Google already uses the order and the fact that the 
words are together as a very strong signal and will stray from it only 
for a good reason, so quotes are usually unnecessary. By insisting on 
phrase search you might be missing good results accidentally. For 
example, a search for [ "Alexander Bell" ] (with quotes) will miss the 
pages that refer to Alexander G. Bell ..


Cheers,
Stephen