[Corpora-List] Google "region"-based searches

[John F Sowa]

In ancient times (pre 21st century), Google supported Boolean
expressions for searching.  But now it's impossible to control
their search in any predictable fashion.

For example, I wanted to count the number of web pages that used
the phrase "enterprise integration pattern" and the word 'sql'.

But when I type just "enterprise integration pattern" by itself,
I get 114,000 hits.  When I add another word, the number should
decrease.  But the following combination gets 137,000 hits:

    "enterprise integration pattern" sql

The following combination gets 274,000 hits:

    "enterprise integration pattern" java

And the following gets 25,900,000 hits:

    "enterprise integration pattern" java sql

I get the same numbers with a one-line search or with
their so-called advanced search.

Does anybody know how to bypass the Google heuristics and
force it to use a simple regular expression for searching?

John Sowa

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