[Milsurplus] FLASH: McMaster-Carr Selling BC-610-F's

[J. Forster]

D C Macdonald wrote:

> But "radio*" works for both.  The wild card does work
> to expand your search.  The more specific portions
> you can ad helps also.

But the * is a general wild card. It will also get you radiosonde, radioshack,
radiosoap, ..... .  186,000+ of them. IMO a search for the plural should also
include the singular. I'd prefer allowing something like radio(s). Also, it'd be
nice if they allowed Boolean expressions, e.g.:

radio(s) AND tube(s) BUT NOT everready OR motorola

At least they got rid of the CR crock...  the search engine would not accept a
CR as a line terminator, even though it was an illegal character in a search
string.

It's still the old story that "Computers don't do what

> you want them to.  They only do what you tell them
> to do."  AND, they are extremely literal in most cases.

IMO, it's the programmers that are at fault. Sure, it's more work, but they make
billions a year with a staff of a few hundred. They could well afford to fix
their problems.

> I have found that eBay ignores several punctuation
> signs.  The ":" and "/" for example.  While looking
> for some particular Harley models I tried 1:24 and
> 1/24 (the scale) but found out that just 1 24 got
> all listings with and without the punctuation.

Hmm..  interesting. I have problems with how the machine parses the '-' sign.

> Ya gotta get smarter than the machines!!!
>
> HAR!!!

I get annoyed when they change things and screw up all my saved links.

-John

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> Mac, K2GKK/5 in Oklahoma City