Having trouble finding a word in multiple files

[Liam Proven]

On Thu, 18 Jun 2020 at 09:55, Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 11:05:34PM +0100, Peter Flynn wrote:
> >
> > On 17/06/2020 20:39, Liam Proven wrote:
> > > On Tue, 16 Jun 2020 at 21:07, rikona <rikona at sonic.net> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Thanks. Sounds pretty general purpose. For on-box text, does it have
> > > > things like proximity searching? [word A within 5 words of word B]
> > >
> > > Nope, not AFAIK.
> > >
> > > This is a 15Y old feature; I'm surprised it's news to anyone.
> >
> > I think for the reasons you (or someone) gave: people have forgotten how to
> > search accurately because Google doesn't implement anything except "" and
> > the - (they removed the + years ago).
> >
> Yes (although this has now crept a long way away from the original
> subject) I find that Google (and other search engines) are getting
> steadily less and less useful.  I want a search engine that searches
> for *exactly* what I put in with an implicit AND between all the
> terms.  That's what Google originally did and it's why it was so much
> better than most other search engines at the time because it was the
> only one that did the AND.  All the others ORed the terms which made
> refining a search almost impossible.

Agreed. Between that and Pagerank.

It is a great tragedy that Google got so big and then dropped the
"don't be evil" motto and essentially turned bad.

They have killed off so many products, from Notes to Google Reader,
that I liked and used. They have also killed off dozens of failed
projects with no effort to absorb or repurpose them. G+ should have
subsumed Orkut and Wave, for example. It badly needed threading.

Google Groups is a broken forgotten thing, but Google absorbed every
other Usenet archive in building it, so all that is lost.

I remain suspicious that Kubernetes was not released as a gift to the
FOSS world, but as a distraction tactic to consume all the FOSS
worlds' efforts into understanding and maintaining it, while Google
got on with extracting money from large corporations for Google Apps
and attempting to compete with Amazon in cloud computing.

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