Revolution Search Engine

Richmond richmondmathewson at gmail.com
Wed Sep 1 16:31:53 EDT 2010


On 09/01/2010 11:24 PM, Mike Bonner wrote:
> Same here.  Google search works, gmane works, the rev database errors for
> me.
> Can't get a single dictionary search to work, whether quick or deep.  Not
> that it matters to me that much since I didn't know it was there before
> today, but even so.
>    

There's gold in them thar hills.

Or, fool's gold . . .  :)

> On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Richmond<richmondmathewson at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>    
>> On 09/01/2010 11:11 PM, zryip theSlug wrote:
>>
>>      
>>> On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 9:56 PM, Richmond<richmondmathewson at gmail.com>
>>>   wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>>>> Under the HELP menu.
>>>>
>>>> Probably the second time in about 9 years I have ever tried to use this:
>>>>
>>>> it gave what can only be described as "a little fart" on my MacMini, and
>>>> that my dears was all.
>>>>
>>>> if it is nothing but flatulence, why is it still there?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> Probably because it works pretty well for others.
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>> Interesting:
>>
>> Let's try it again on Mac OS 10.4.11 and Ubuntu 10.04:
>>
>> Funny . . . now it gave a 'fart' when I opened it the first time on my
>> MacMini.
>>
>> Now I typed 'search' into the 'search box and it gave me a reference to a
>> website
>> on Geocities that does not exist anymore . . . cool or what?
>>
>> Typed 'Unicode': nix.
>>
>> Typed 'button': nix.
>>
>> OK, on the Google "tab" it gives me a simple Google search - but, hey, I
>> have a couple
>> of web-browsers installed on each of my systems.
>>
>> Possibly naive (wouldn't be the first time), I imagined it would come up
>> with RunRev relevant
>> information.
>>
>> The 'Dictionary Quick Search' is significantly slower than the inbuilt
>> Documentation . . . err . . .
>> waiting . . . wow:
>>
>> "Could not find "button" as a string in the dictionary"
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> I wonder quite what you mean by "useful"? Certainly evidencing a semantic
>> shirt there, methinks.
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