Monday, July 16, 2007

Using Google

If you Google "FARC" you get 6 million sites. But if you use advance search and use the "with the exact phrase" box for "FARC" you get over 6 million sites. I narrowed my search even more by using the "with at least one of the words" box for "drug war" and the "without the words" box for "terrorism". This narrowed it down first to 900 thousand sites then to 500 thousand sites.

with all of the words
with the exact phraseFARC
with at least one of the wordsdrug war
without the wordsterrorism
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If you Google "Colombia Guerrilla Movement" you get over 500 thousand sites. But if you use advance search and use the "with the exact phrase" box for "Colombia Guerrilla Movement" you get 60 sites. Over 400 thousand fewer sites than before! I narrowed my search even more by using the "with at least one of the words" box for "drugs" and the "without the words" box for "weapons". This narrowed it down first to 22 sites then to 6 sites.

with all of the words
with the exact phraseColombian Guerrilla Movement
with at least one of the wordsdrugs
without the wordsweapons

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