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Old March 6th 12, 09:49 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Lostgallifreyan
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Default Off-topic Google-related rant.

Franc Zabkar wrote in
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c assign "1d array to 2d array" -convert*
About 583,000,000 results

+c assign "1d array to 2d array" -convert*
No results found for +c assign "1d array to 2d array" -convert*

+c assign "1d array to 2d array"
No results found for +c assign "1d array to 2d array"


Actually, that's broken anyway! Using that specific quoted string alone
gets 14000+ results, some of the first-page ones specifically mentioning C!
But when I tried the string, and +C, I got no results even without the other
terms to restrict them.

There is a lot of talk on the web about assigning 1D arrays to 2D arrays in
C, largely because you can't, you have to use a struct and pointer iteration
to get a neat method to emulate it, or build the means into higher level
languages. Either that or nest for-loops ad nauseam... So the moment that C
is explicitly requested with +C, there is something wrong if ZERO results are
returned. Plus operator or no plus operator, that's just plain borked.

Incidentally, the + operator WAS NOT ignored when I just tried it to see what
you showed me. I'm not imagining that it was ignored recently though.

Google this:
google plus operator
Page after page confirming that it was revoked. Maybe they revoked the
revoke, or borked the revoke, or revoked the bork... It makes my
head spin. Sometimes I wonder if Google should just start over and let us
have substrings and RegEx so we have a fighting chance of getting what we
need.