Seaching for Java

[ebresie]

This is a silly topic but one I thought "where better to ask"...

On periodically searches online (news, blogs, etc) for Java related topcis, I always have to filter out things like Java" related countries (i.e. Thailand, Jakarta, etc) or Coffee related links (i.e. coffee shops, coffee blends, etc). 

I have my news aggregate categorized for java specific sites which helps some, but on searches that's not always the case.  I can do the -Thailand type of filtering, but then I have to make lengthy queries which are a little bit of a pain to redo each time

I was curious how others work around this. 

Eric

[Jon Kiparsky]

Most of the time when I'm searching for something java related, the subtopic is pretty good disambiguation. I mean, 'java concurrency' isn't likely to come up with anything about the island.  As long as nobody comes up with a library called "Gamelan", I think this should work pretty well.

Actually, I think it's probably more of a problem the other way around. When I search for "java currency", all of the results on the first three pages are about the programming language. If I want to find out what I use to buy a cup of coffee on the island of Java, I have to search "java island currency'. It's the rupiah, in case you're wondering.

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[Mark Fortner]

I heard that Google also targets your results based on previous searches as well.  So if you do a lot of Java programming related searches, you're more likely to get programming-related results. Experience seems to bear this out.

Cheers,

Mark

[ebresie]

Minor caveat...

This seem to hit me mostly when searching news.google.com to try and have Java news.  So maybe google was trying to mix "world news" with "programming news" :-)

Eric