RE: Pleasurable typo (and the horror of Google)

Subject: RE: Pleasurable typo (and the horror of Google)
From: "Boudreaux, Madelyn (GE Healthcare, consultant)" <MadelynBoudreaux -at- ge -dot- com>
To: "Al Geist" <al -dot- geist -at- geistassociates -dot- com>, "Guy K. Haas" <guy -at- hiskeyboard -dot- com>, "Richard Mateosian" <xrmxrm -at- gmail -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 17:50:06 -0500

Someone, I'm not sure whom because I deleted the message sorry, said:

>There would appear to be no syntax, no way of stating the pattern,
>to say "Don't ignore punctuation." If I want "x" followed by white
>space followed by "ray" but NOT "xray", there's no way to specify that.

This search: "X ray" -xray
Netted different results than: "x ray"
But "x ray" got the same results as x ray and x-ray and "x-ray".

Sincerely,
Madelyn Boudreaux-ray!
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Re: Pleasurable typo (and the horror of Google): From: Guy K. Haas
RE: Pleasurable typo (and the horror of Google): From: Al Geist

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