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Quite exciting this computer magic

Google & .NET

That's true as long as you don't actually use MSDN to do your searching.  Compare the hits from:
Searching MSDN for ADO.NET
Searching Google for ADO.NET (limited to Microsoft.com)

[Sean & Scott]

What I think is funny about this example is that search for ADO.NET on the sneaky Microsoft Google search (http://www.google.com/microsoft) won't work.  Give it a shot.

I cannot fathom how a name with dot in it because standard (ever try to create a folder called .NET?).  I've also had to explain to our sales people before that even .COMs can use .NET.  Yes, I'm serious.

At least the Google search for C# is working.  When it first was announced all you'd get where links to GCC and the such.

Published Mar 25 2003, 02:03 PM by Phil Scott

Comments

 

sirshannon said:

works fine if you remember the quotes.

http://www.google.com/microsoft?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=%22ado.net%22&btnG=Google+Search
March 25, 2003 11:28 AM
 

Phil Scott said:

Oh, but that's cheating :)
March 25, 2003 11:31 AM
 

TrackBack said:

Google and dots : Loosely Coupled
March 25, 2003 2:03 PM
 

John Tobler said:

You can also simply search at the following sites, or others like them, using the "Search only in ..." feature:

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&group=microsoft.public

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&group=microsoft.public.dotnet

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&group=microsoft.public.ado

Here is an example of a search URL for "remoting" in microsoft.public.dotnet:

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=remoting&btnG=Google+Search&meta=group%3Dmicrosoft.public.dotnet.*

Onec you have a URL like that, you can easily put a different search term into it, instead of "remoting". You can even script a bunch of these things to perform a series of searches.

I often use groups.google.com to restrict searches to useful subsets of the Net (such as comp.lang, etc).

Enjoy!
March 26, 2003 10:38 AM

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