If the term you want is a verb, try typing "how to" (skip the word you don't know) and then (the usual object of the verb, or another closely related term). That will often get you titles from instruction archive sites, which are more likely to name the verb.
I have about a brown belt in google-fu thanks to my linguistic knack. A computer wizard can beat me, but that's about what it takes.
>> Yaay, that Oh-crud-what-was-that-word INCREDIBLE tension finally left my brain. <<
That feels SO good.
>> The next time I went back to the library, I caught up to the same librarian and asked if she remembered the search. She did (possibly because we took so long for an ultimately futile task) so I told her what the task was called. <<
That was sweet of you.
>> Btw, local library rules do NOT allow her to use a non Google search engine, because Google DEFUALTS to "safe mode". <<
Which as you discovered can make the library fecking useless for finding even nonsexual information. If you can't find something on the first search engine you try, swap off to different ones; that's a basic trick.
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dancing_serpent
Re: Search Engines and realism
Date: 2014-03-30 07:20 pm (UTC)Cool.
>> Frex (for example, Ysa?) <<
Yes, that's the contraction. I picked it up from one of my far-future characters.
>> I went to my local reference librarian and she did EVERYTHING she could to find it via the library's default search engine. Nada. <<
I couldn't resist trying this myself, and typed in "how to citrus fruit." This came up on the first page:
http://www.thejoykitchen.com/ingredients-techniques/how-supreme-citrus-fruits
If the term you want is a verb, try typing "how to" (skip the word you don't know) and then (the usual object of the verb, or another closely related term). That will often get you titles from instruction archive sites, which are more likely to name the verb.
I have about a brown belt in google-fu thanks to my linguistic knack. A computer wizard can beat me, but that's about what it takes.
>> Yaay, that Oh-crud-what-was-that-word INCREDIBLE tension finally left my brain. <<
That feels SO good.
>> The next time I went back to the library, I caught up to the same librarian and asked if she remembered the search. She did (possibly because we took so long for an ultimately futile task) so I told her what the task was called. <<
That was sweet of you.
>> Btw, local library rules do NOT allow her to use a non Google search engine, because Google DEFUALTS to "safe mode". <<
Which as you discovered can make the library fecking useless for finding even nonsexual information. If you can't find something on the first search engine you try, swap off to different ones; that's a basic trick.