Re: Text Art Plus (plus thoughts about ascii searching)
From Veronica Karlsson <e93...@nospam.sm.luth.se>
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· 23 Aug 1997 00:00 · View full thread
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Jorn Barger wrote: > > >Veronica Karlsson wrote: > [...] > >> I tried to search in Alta Vista for a line from good old > >> "Meriday's" feet... Here's the line: > >> "MMMM MM::::m:m:MM" > > Altavista ignores all punctuation, so this would work the same as > "MMMM.MM.m.m.MM" or "MMMM MM m m MM". > > Unfortunately, most all ascii art is almost pure punctuation, so AV is > little or no use. (It may be that other search engines would handle > this better-- anyone know?) Oh :( Well, I haven't actually used this method, I just thought about the possibility when I wrote that post about the difference between ascii art and gif images as "seen" by the computer... :-/ -- :) Veronica Karlsson ( e93...@sm.luth.se http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/ )
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,5eed6d92c56571a5 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: Veronica Karlsson <e93...@nospam.sm.luth.se> Subject: Re: Text Art Plus (plus thoughts about ascii searching) Date: 1997/08/23 Message-ID: <33F...@nospam.sm.luth.se>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 268231925 References: <199...@ladder02.news.aol.com> <716...@hugbear.NL.net> <33F...@nospam.sm.luth.se> <33F...@wing.rug.nl> <5tn03r$9u7$1...@Mercury.mcs.net> Organization: Junk e-mail gladly reported (I have got credit for chucking several spammers out of their accounts) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
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