Re: More questions about trying to use mutt with ssmtp
On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Chris Green wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 11:38:06AM +0000, Stewart V. Wright wrote:
> > * henry nelson <netb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [040203 11:26]:
> > > > *Gentle Slap With A Wet Fish* STFW
> > >
> > > Google is good! (Must have misspelled it last year! Thanks for the
> > > slap.)
> >
> > I noticed that you're a .jp person so I was intrigued to see if
> > Google.co.jp would have different/no listings... So only a gentle
> > slap as I guess you wouldn't get much Monty Python over there! ;)
> >
> > What did surprise me is that google.com and google.co.uk have a
> > different number of listings. Strange as both the Yanks and Poms
> > (apparently) speak English (although you'd be hard pressed to justify
> > that after speaking to someone from Glasgow!)
> >
> I thought I'd decided that all the Googles were sat on top of the same
> search engine. However I now see that www.google.fr returns 10 fewer
> hits for nbsmtp than www.google.co.uk, I'm sure previous searches I've
> done have returned the same.
google caches some metrics for searches - aside from the commercial bias,
the ordering and selection of hits gives a subtle clue to how many users
ask for that information.
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Thomas E. Dickey
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