alt.internet.search-engines

Terry Pinnell wrote:
> Can anyone explain this puzzle please? I've just started looking for a
> program that will take a word and reverse it. IOW, take 'This' and
> produce 'sihT'. So in Google I started with 'transposition program'.
> From the hits, I immediately realised many dealt with musical aspects.
> I also thought I'd narrow it a bit more by including 'word'. So I
> re-entered the search as 'transposition program -music +word'.
>
> But in the first page "Results 1 - 20 of about 33,600 for
> transposition program -music +word. (0.33 seconds)" I see several hits
> that *do* include 'music'. For example
> ---------
> Software Download: Transpose
> Use the transposition facilities to aid you in writing music or
> transcribing pieces you don't have ... In fact think of it as a
> word-processor for music. ...
> ---------
>
I'm too lazy to check, but I suspect that the word 'music' doesn't appear in
the page text of the result link, but does in the DMOZ or META description
of the site.

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Dave