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Old 06-Jan-2007, 20:13
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Default Specialized Searches Using General Search Engines
Text searches in the public search engines are very limited with respect to conducting proximity searches, and I have yet to find any of them which enable "Within Sentence," or even "Within Paragraph" searches.

While TextStat, as well as some other concordance software, can do proximity searches, this is a slow and cumbersome process.

In later posts, I will describe some software I designed in the 1980's, which I will be pleased to make available for those having access to any Macintosh with OS 7.5 through 9.2 available.

What I am looking for now, is any search operator sets available on Google, Yahoo, Clusty, Ask.com, or any other major search engine, facilitating the search categories listed above.
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