Comments on: Google should do abbreviations http://blog.dolphinling.net/2005/01/google-should-do-abbreviations/ ...whatever goes through my head... Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:50:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: dolphinling http://blog.dolphinling.net/2005/01/google-should-do-abbreviations/comment-page-1/#comment-11 dolphinling Tue, 08 Feb 2005 03:57:21 +0000 /?p=34#comment-11 <p>While define: is great, it appears <em>not</em> to search in the title of abbreviations, which means that for the more common ones it'll find them, but for some obscure ones it doesn't find them, and there's also a lot of stuff in the results that isn't strictly an expansion of the abbreviation.</p> <p>Still, it's not a real problem or anything that would make a huge difference in my life, just something that'd be nice (since I like looking at google more than sites like acronymfinder.com with all their ads).</p> While define: is great, it appears not to search in the title of abbreviations, which means that for the more common ones it’ll find them, but for some obscure ones it doesn’t find them, and there’s also a lot of stuff in the results that isn’t strictly an expansion of the abbreviation.

Still, it’s not a real problem or anything that would make a huge difference in my life, just something that’d be nice (since I like looking at google more than sites like acronymfinder.com with all their ads).

]]> By: Anne http://blog.dolphinling.net/2005/01/google-should-do-abbreviations/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Anne Tue, 25 Jan 2005 07:08:10 +0000 /?p=34#comment-8 <p>Use 'define:HTML'. </p> Use ‘define:HTML’.

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