Re: Operating System Sucks-Rules-O-Meter

[Chuck Lewis <CLEWIS@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I follow you Neil !

What I'm trying to say is that there are a TON of hits, as I pointed out, on
OS400 or AS400, etc., just begging to have "Rules" tagged onto there metags (the
deals the search engines use...).

We should devide up the list and start e-mailing these folks ! ?

Chuck

Neil Palmer wrote:

> According to the rules you must use AltaVista to search.  And you MUST
> use quotes like in "AS/400 rules" else you will get any document that
> contains 'AS/400' and 'rules/rocks/sucks' but not together.
>
> I get the following:
> "AS/400 rules"          5
> "AS/400 rocks"          0
> "AS/400 sucks"          0
>
> "AS400 rules"           0
> "AS400 rocks"           0
> "AS400 sucks"           0
>
> "OS/400 rules"                  0
> "OS/400 rocks"                  0
> "OS/400 sucks"                  2
>
> "OS400 rules"                   0
> "OS400 rocks"                   0
> "OS400 sucks"                   0
>
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Chuck Lewis [SMTP:CLEWIS@IQUEST.NET]
> > Sent: Thursday, September 03, 1998 8:22 AM
> > To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> > Subject:      Re: Operating System Sucks-Rules-O-Meter
> > Importance:   High
> >
> > Hey folks, check THIS out...
> >
> > AS/400 Rules and AS/400 rules produce different results (naturally),
> > one list is
> > longer...
> > OS400 produces 1,310 hits
> > OS/400 produces 34, 924 hits !!!!!
> >
> > We need to get these folks to change their meta tags !!!
> >
> > Chuck
> >
> > Neil Palmer wrote:
> >
> > > Hey - check out the Operating System Sucks-Rules-O-Meter page
> > > at http://electriclichen.com/linux/srom.html
> > >
> > > Don Marti (who runs the page) says he will include AS/400 if he gets
> > > enough requests.
> > > ("AS/400 rules" appears 4 times on an AltaVista search).
> > >
> > > If you'd like to see AS/400 included (yeah I know, technically the
> > OS is
> > > OS/400, but there ain't no "OS/400 rules" hits on AltaVista) send
> > Don a
> > > nice e-mail to:
> > > sucksrulesmaster@electriclichen.com
> > >
> > > Neil Palmer
> >
>
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