help with fabric search

In article , Angrie.Woman of SBC

uttered>If you were searching via Google for swimsuit fabric, what word / words>would you use?>

Search on

swimwear +fabric

You are having a cr@p day, aren't you?

I always add "yard" to those types of searches so I don't get acres and acres of RTW sites.

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That wouldn't work in the UK - we don't call it "yardage" and it's sold by the metre in any case.

The search string as I gave it produced a list which started with half a dozen places selling the fabric, not the RTW. That's why specifying the

• in front of the word fabric is a good plan.

I know

sell swimwear fabric - $20.99 minimum order. I think sells it as well as HTH Juno

Okay, then you put "yardage" or "metre" in your search as well.

Lucky you. It doesn't always work that way for me. Or maybe I just search lots of times for fabric that is commonly identified specifically in RTW clothing.

What does the plus sign do? I know that quotes match an exact phrase, and a minus excludes pages with a certain word.

I think what I'm trying to ask here is: How is "swimsuit +fabric" different to Google than "swimsuit fabric?"

Angela

In article , Angrie.Woman of SBC

uttered>>What does the plus sign do? I know that quotes match an exact phrase, >and a minus excludes pages with a certain word. It's to do with boolean searches

without the plus, you get strings including either the word swimwear, or the word fabric, or both

with the plus, you get strings including both the word swimwear and the word fabric

And in most search engines, if you put "swimwear fabric" in quotes, you will get sites that use it as a phrase.

The plus sign is a Boolean AND. AFAIAA, in a Google search it doesn't do anything because Google adds it automatically. In a normal search, if you look for

*swimsuit fabric* you'll get every article with the word swimsuit and/or the word fabric (this will include some articles with both). If you search for *swimsuit +fabric* you'll only get articles that contain both words. This will include articles that say something like "Our swimsuits are made from exclusive fabric", which may not help you much. Adding quotes, thus: *"swimsuit fabric"* makes the search engine treat the two words as a _string_: it effectively makes them into one word. So you'll only get results in which the words "swimsuit fabric" occur together with a single space between.

For example, lying in bed with a sore throat and blocked nose I was thinking of a quote about the Four Horsemen of the Common Cold. I know there's something about tissues in the quote. I search for

*horsemen "common cold" tissues* and here it is, a quote from the wonderful Terry Pratchett: "The four horsemen whose Ride presages the end of the world are known to be Death, War, Famine and Pestilence. But even less significant events have their own horsemen. For example, the Four Horsemen of the Common Cold are Sniffles, Chesty, Nostril and Lack of Tissues; the Four Horsemen whose appearance foreshadows any public holiday are Storm, Gales, Sleet and Contra-flow."

I wish I knew how to make Google search for

*(this AND that) OR (this AND "the other")* Anyone know?

Sally

there that would help???

No: it tells me how to search for

*this AND that* or *this OR that* but not how to search for either of two ANDs. At least, that's how I read it. Am I wrong?

Sally

Unfortunately, the system has been "improved" to make sure that you find phrases that are broken at the ends of lines. I found it amusing when an auto-Google turned up stuff like ". . . greeted with joy. Beeson and Jones said . . . ". I was considerably less amused when I wanted to find out what "gold bronze" (mentioned in a mystery story) was -- and turned up everything in the world that comes in gold, bronze, and . . . . Never did find out whether or not in real life there is bronze that's an alloy of gold.

Joy Beeson

Doesn't look like it:

Bronze is an alloy: Bronze, as defined in centuries past, is any alloy that is mostly copper with tin as the second largest component. (1) Small amounts of other elements such as lead, phosphorus, zinc, iron, or manganese may also be present.

Since almost all "gold" jewelry is an alloy of gold plus some other metal in order to impart different color or strength characteristics, I would guess a gold-bronze alloy will have been attempted at some point.

See:

;-)

I have no idea, not my area of expertise. However, I use the "advanced" Google search often, and find it useful.

> > great links, thanks!

I think that's how. (swimsuit+fabric)OR(lycra+cotton) For instance. The "OR" must be capitalized.