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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Search Tip #103910 05/27/2003 6:37 AM Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 866 Perth, Western Australia stales old hand stales old hand Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 866 Perth, Western Australia re "What in hell has the internet come to? Searching for "Venus of Willemdorf" brings up a Porn site! Bill - Have you tried using double quotes before and after the requested item (to constrain the search engine to exactly that phrase)? I did this in Google (after changing the spelling of WilleNdorf) and got 3,850 hits - the first few pages of which all seemed non-porn. Am now going to do the search without the quotes to see what you say you saw - just for research purposes of course!! stales Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted Day 4- Ya hoser! of troy 05/22/2003 11:33 AM Re: Day 4- Ya hoser! wwh 05/22/2003 12:21 PM Re: Day 4- Ya hoser! of troy 05/22/2003 2:55 PM Re: Day 4- Ya hoser! wwh 05/22/2003 3:15 PM Re: Day 4- Ya hoser! of troy 05/22/2003 4:20 PM Search Tip stales 05/27/2003 6:37 AM Re: Day 4- Ya hoser! dxb 05/22/2003 3:51 PM Re: Day 4- Ya hoser! dxb 05/22/2003 3:52 PM Re: Day 4- Ya hoser! of troy 05/22/2003 4:04 PM Re: Day 4- Ya hoser! dxb 05/22/2003 4:09 PM Re: Day 4- Ya hoser! Bean 05/22/2003 4:34 PM Re: Day 4- Ya hoser! Jackie 05/23/2003 12:04 AM Re: Day 4- Ya hoser! sjm 05/23/2003 12:15 AM Re: Day 4- Ya hoser! Buffalo Shrdlu 05/23/2003 12:21 AM Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Flat Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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