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Re: What's your modus operandi?
de Susan Bugher 05/23/2006 01:29
MLC wrote:
> lunedì 22 maggio 2006 Susan Bugher ha scritto:
>>Hi Maria,
>>Could you be specific about what you search *for* when you're trying to
>>locate posts about a program? (I've seen a lot of reviews/
>>recommendations that don't include the program's name. . .
> Uhmm, I search for the program name and read the thread.
> I can miss some reviews, but I think it's unlikely to have an entire thread
> with the name never mentioned.
It's been known to happen ;) AND authors often use several name
variations for the same program - between those problems and spelling
mistakes if you only try *one* spelling for the program name I think
it's *very* easy to miss posts/threads about an app.
FWIW - the results of an ACF archive search I just did for a well known app:
zonealarm
Results 1 - 100 of 2,230 for "zonealarm"
zone alarm
Results 1 - 100 of 1,430 for "zone alarm"
If name searches don't work an additional search for the home page URL
may bring up something new. . .
Results 1 - 100 of 191 for "www.zonelabs.com"
FWIW - if you find an app on the ACF pages and can't find *any* ACF
posts/threads - as a last resort feel free to ping me (I usually save at
least one ACF post about each app).
Susan
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