Medline & AltaVista (versus Google] on QINGHAO in Cancer or Lymphoma/Lymphosarcoma

[Guest guest]

Hi All, & Hi Marcia

 

I forgot to comment on the differences between the ADVANCED

versions of two Altavista v Google for focused (BOOLEAN-type)

WWW searches in my last mail about published data on Qinghao

(and related synonyms) on lymphoma / lymphosarcoma.

 

Marcia De Luna wrote:

> I use ... the word QINGHAOSU and retrieve 653 only with QINGHAOSU

> but not with the other key words.

 

Marcia, your note prompted me to look at my search profiles again.

You are correct. Many thanks!

 

I had forgotten QINGHAOSU (the Chinese synonym for artemisinin

in the for purified extract of Qinghao). I has also forgotten to include

the alternative term " artemisinine " , and the plural terms for words

like artemisinin, artemisinine, lymphoma, cancer, etc.

 

MEDLINE is the definitive source for PUBLISHED scientific articles

in medicine.

 

1. I have re-run searches on Medline, Google and AltaVista on

 

2. Medline allows Wildcards (*) to cover related words beginning

with the root word before the wildcard.

 

Therefore, the cancer part of the Medline search was:

(lymphoid-neoplasia* OR lymphoid-cancer* OR lymphosarcoma*

OR lymphoma* OR hodgkin's OR hodgkins)

It had 121967 hits for that profile. See: http://tinyurl.com/5e6c5

 

3. General WWW searches on Google or AltaVista (see more

below) use terms like: ( " lymphoid-neoplasia " OR " lymphoid-cancer "

OR lymphosarcoma OR lymphoma OR hodgkin's OR hodgkins)

AND (qinghaosu OR artemisinin OR qinghao OR " artemisia-annua "

OR artemisinins OR " qing-hao-su " OR artemisinine OR chinghao

OR " qing-hao " OR " ching-hao " OR " ching-hao-su " OR " artemisiae-

annuae " OR " sweet-wormwood " OR " sweet-annie " OR

artemisinines)

 

However, Medline has no hits on the terms: qing-hao-su, chinghao,

ching-hao, ching-hao-su, artemisiae-annuae, or sweet-annie.

 

Therefore, these terms were omitted from a Medline search, and

the Qinghao-related part of the search was reduced to:

(qinghaosu OR artemisinin OR qinghao OR " artemisia-annua " OR

artemisinins OR artemisinine OR " qing-hao " OR " sweet-

wormwood " OR artemisinines)

That search had 1615 Medline hits. See: http://tinyurl.com/3wpmo

 

4. Combination of Searhes (2) AND (3) had ZERO Medline hits

[see: http://tinyurl.com/42yu5 ] for:

(lymphoid-neoplasia* OR lymphoid-cancer* OR lymphosarcoma*

OR lymphoma* OR hodgkin's OR hodgkins) AND (qinghaosu OR

artemisinin OR qinghao OR " artemisia-annua " OR artemisinins OR

artemisinine OR " qing-hao " OR " sweet-wormwood " OR

artemisinines)

 

5. However, there were 37 hits [ http://tinyurl.com/4m3tg ] for a

Medline search for:

(neoplas* OR cancer* OR sarcoma*) AND (qinghaosu OR

artemisinin OR qinghao OR " artemisia-annua " OR artemisinins OR

artemisinine OR " qing-hao " OR " sweet-wormwood " OR

artemisinines)

 

As an aftethought, I ran the profile:

(leucaemi* OR leukaem* OR leukem* OR leucem*) AND

(qinghaosu OR artemisinin OR qinghao OR " artemisia-annua " OR

artemisinins OR artemisinine OR " qing-hao " OR " sweet-

wormwood " OR artemisinines)

There were 14 hits [ http://tinyurl.com/3jptu ].

 

CONCLUSION: Medline had no hits on Qinghao-related topics and

lymphoid-type cancers, but had 37 hits on Qinghao-related tiopics

and OTHER cancers, including 14 hits on leukaemia or related

conditions.

 

WWW gives a different picture altogether! There are many CLAIMS

" out there " that Qinghao (or related approaches) may influence

many forms of cancer, including lymphoid-type cancers.

 

Below is a long look at search strategies on Altavista versus

Google. The bottom line is that AltaVista gets far more hits than

Google. However, one must question the scientific valiidity of

WWW claime that are unsupported by published work on Medline.

 

Best regards,

Phil

 

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

 

Excerpts from a mail earlier this evening to Stan Rice of

http://members.cruzio.com/~autospec/

 

Hi Stan,

 

, a professional veterinary researcher and a practitioner

of acupuncture and Traditional , here.

 

Your concept of " Go for the nectar! " [

http://members.cruzio.com/~autospec/ ] appeals to me very much!

 

Though there is a vast amount of info on WWW, I am frustrated by

my inability to " find the nectar " [the genuine, reliable data] using

standard Engines.

 

I find Google inadequate because one can use only 10 words in a

single search. Therefore, one cannot do a complex search on it.

For example, see the examples, below. If you disagree, please tell

me how!

 

I wanted to search for WWW data on the following concept:

QINGHAO (a chinese herb), and its synonyms, in relation to:

CANCER of the lymphoid tissues, and their synonyms.

 

A search of scientific (by paid subscription only) databases would

use a complex profile, such as in the detailed example (A) + (L),

below.

 

In contrast, AltaVista Advanced is much easier to use and gives

more hits in complex searches than Google. However, Altavista

also has quirks that I do not understand.

 

For example by switching keyweod positios in a profile, or dropping

brackets, one gets different numbers of hits for the same search

words! Try this in AltaVista [ www.altavista.com/ ]:

 

" qing-hao " OR QINGHAO (2100 hits)

( " qing-hao " OR QINGHAO) (2060 hits)

[The brackets removed 40 hits]

 

And:

QINGHAO OR " qing-hao " (2050 hits)

(QINGHAO OR " qing-hao " ) (2050 hits)

[The hits were less than when the hyphenated term went first, but

the brackets made no difference!]

 

These quirks (and those described below) make me wonder if am

using the AltaVista and/or Google engines correctly. I would

greatly appreciate your tips on

 

(1) Which WWW engine(s) you find the best for complex searches

related to health & medicine,

 

and

 

(b) How to formulate a complex (Boolean) WWW Search to link

concepts (a) and (b) above to the best advantage.

 

More details on comparisons between Google and Altavista follow.

 

Best regards,

 

 

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

 

QUIRKS OF GOOGLE & ALTAVISTA Engines, by ,

Dublin, Nov 3, 2004

 

This note compares the outputs from complex searches on the

Advanced (Boolean Search) option on AltaVista [

www.altavista.com/web/adv ] versus the Basic Google Engine [

www.google.com/ ]. [The Google Advanced Search [

www.google.com/advanced_search ] was no better than the Basic

Search, and was more difficult to use because the OR statements

had to be removed from the decided searches, as below].

 

Several quirks emerged from these searches. They are described,

with specific examples, below.

 

(a) Google allows only 10 search terms, including hyphenated

terms. If the 10th term is the second (or later) part of a hyphenated

term, (for example, “qing” in the term “qing-hao-su”), many

irrelevant hits (relating to its first part (“qing”, in the cited example)

are returned. Therefore, it is not possible to search Google for

complex strings, with many “OR” statements.

 

(b) In the search examples, below, Google omitted the

CAPITALISED search terms. That omission resulted in less hits

than one would expect, as indicated by the asterisk (*) in the

Google Hits column, below.

 

© Google also returns different numbers of hits for exactly the

same profiles (for example A, B, C below) in searches done, say

10 or 20 minutes later, The numbers can go up or down, for no

apparent reason!

 

(d) CONCLUSIONS: Overall, it would seem that AltaVista was

easier to use for complex searches, and returned more hits than

Google. The RELEVANCE of the hits (from both sources was not

examined.

 

1. What happens when PLURAL forms are included as “OR”

options with singular forms?: Google gives LESS hits, whereas, as

one might expect, Altavista gives MORE hits. Also, Altavista

returns hit numbers that are multiple times greater than Google.

 

For example: Hits on Google Basic v Hits on Altavista Advanced

 

A For SINGULAR forms of the search terms: ( " lymphoid-

neoplasia” OR " lymphoid-cancer " OR lymphosarcoma OR

lymphoma OR hodgkin's OR hodgkins) 480,000 1,630,000

 

B For PLURAL forms of the search terms: ( " lymphoid-neoplasias”

OR " lymphoid-cancers " OR lymphosarcomas OR lymphomas OR

hodgkin's OR hodgkins) 244,000 992,000

 

C For BOTH OPTIONS (singular or plural): ( " lymphoid-neoplasia”

OR " lymphoid-cancer " OR lymphosarcoma OR lymphoma OR

hodgkin's OR hodgkins OR " lymphoid-neoplasias” OR " LYMPHOID-

CANCERS " OR LYMPHOSARCOMAS OR LYMPHOMAS)

365,000* 1,860,000

 

2. Reversal of the SEQUENCE of the SAME search terms

changes the number of hits on Google AND Altavista:

 

D ( " lymphoid-neoplasia” OR " lymphoid-cancer " OR

lymphosarcoma OR lymphoma OR hodgkin's OR hodgkins)

480,000 1,630,000

 

E (hodgkins OR hodgkin's OR lymphoma OR " lymphoid-cancer "

OR " lymphoid-neoplasia " OR lymphosarcoma) 475,000

1,660,000

 

F (lymphoma OR hodgkin's OR hodgkins OR " lymphoid-cancer "

OR " lymphoid-neoplasia " OR lymphosarcoma) 477,000

1,650,000

 

G (lymphosarcoma OR lymphoma OR hodgkin's OR hodgkins OR

" lymphoid-cancer " OR " lymphoid-neoplasia " ) 473,000

1,620,000

 

H ( " lymphoid-cancer " OR " lymphoid-neoplasia” OR

lymphosarcoma OR lymphoma OR hodgkin's OR hodgkins)

473,000 1,620,000

 

I Same as © except that the plurals were put in first:

( " lymphoid-neoplasias” OR " lymphoid-cancers " OR

lymphosarcomas OR lymphomas OR hodgkin's OR hodgkins OR

" lymphoid-neoplasia” OR " LYMPHOID-CANCER " OR

LYMPHOSARCOMA OR LYMPHOMA) 234,000 1,810,000

 

3. SECOND PART OF CONCEPT - QINGHAO or " OR

qinghaosu, etc

 

J SINGULAR: (qinghaosu OR artemisinin OR QINGHAO OR

" artemisia-annua " OR " qing-hao-su " OR " qing-hao " OR

ARTEMISININE OR CHINGHAO OR " CHING-HAO " OR " CHING-

HAO-SU " OR " ARTEMISIAE-ANNUAE " OR " SWEET-

WORMWOOD " OR " SWEET-ANNIE " ) 30,300* 52,900

 

K PLURAL (where plural form exists) or SINGULAR (where only

singulars exist): (qinghaosu OR artemisinins OR QINGHAO OR

" artemisia-annua " OR " qing-hao-su " OR " qing-hao " OR

ARTEMISININES OR CHINGHAO OR " CHING-HAO " OR " CHING-

HAO-SU " OR " ARTEMISIAE-ANNUAE " OR " SWEET-

WORMWOOD " OR " SWEET-ANNIE " ) 16,600* 37,900

 

L BOTH options, but optimized to get the best value for 10 words

in the Google string: (qinghaosu OR artemisinin OR QINGHAO OR

" artemisia-annua " OR artemisinins OR " qing-hao-su " OR

artemisinine OR CHINGHAO OR " QING-HAO " OR " CHING-HAO "

OR " CHING-HAO-SU " OR " ARTEMISIAE-ANNUAE " OR " SWEET-

WORMWOOD " OR " SWEET-ANNIE " OR ARTEMISININES)

31,300* 53,000

 

4. COMBINATION of the TWO CONCEPTS (Lymphoma etc +

Qinghao etc) using maximum hit numbers for each concepts, i.e.:

 

M Combine (A + L) for Google, and (A + L, and C + L) for

Altavista Google=405* (see hits on: tinyurl.com/6ghr8 ),

whereas AltaVista=961 (A+L), or 944 (C+L) (see hits on:

tinyurl.com/7xopz and tinyurl.com/3jbav

 

* Note: Profile (A) was entered on the Basic Google search, and

Profile (L) was added by taking the option “Search WITHIN

Results”, at the bottom left side of each Google Results Page.

 

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

 

Stan, I would appreciate any tips that you can give to help me

formulate complex searches on WWW Engines.

 

I have no problem with the professional databases, because their

“front-end” search facilities are very powerful. But Web Engines do

not allow that precision of focus. Or if they do, I have failed to find it

so far!

 

 

Best regards,

 

Email: <

 

WORK : Teagasc, c/o 1 Esker Lawns, Lucan, Dublin, Ireland

Mobile: 353-; [in the Republic: 0]

 

HOME : 1 Esker Lawns, Lucan, Dublin, Ireland

Tel : 353-; [in the Republic: 0]

WWW : http://homepage.eircom.net/~progers/searchap.htm

 

Chinese Proverb: " Man who says it can't be done, should not interrupt man doing

it "

[Guest guest]

Hi All, & Hi Marcia

 

I forgot to comment on the differences between the ADVANCED

versions of two Altavista v Google for focused (BOOLEAN-type)

WWW searches in my last mail about published data on Qinghao

(and related synonyms) on lymphoma / lymphosarcoma.

 

Marcia De Luna wrote:

> I use ... the word QINGHAOSU and retrieve 653 only with QINGHAOSU

> but not with the other key words.

 

Marcia, your note prompted me to look at my search profiles again.

You are correct. Many thanks!

 

I had forgotten QINGHAOSU (the Chinese synonym for artemisinin

in the for purified extract of Qinghao). I has also forgotten to include

the alternative term " artemisinine " , and the plural terms for words

like artemisinin, artemisinine, lymphoma, cancer, etc.

 

MEDLINE is the definitive source for PUBLISHED scientific articles

in medicine.

 

1. I have re-run searches on Medline, Google and AltaVista on

 

2. Medline allows Wildcards (*) to cover related words beginning

with the root word before the wildcard.

 

Therefore, the cancer part of the Medline search was:

(lymphoid-neoplasia* OR lymphoid-cancer* OR lymphosarcoma*

OR lymphoma* OR hodgkin's OR hodgkins)

It had 121967 hits for that profile. See: http://tinyurl.com/5e6c5

 

3. General WWW searches on Google or AltaVista (see more

below) use terms like: ( " lymphoid-neoplasia " OR " lymphoid-cancer "

OR lymphosarcoma OR lymphoma OR hodgkin's OR hodgkins)

AND (qinghaosu OR artemisinin OR qinghao OR " artemisia-annua "

OR artemisinins OR " qing-hao-su " OR artemisinine OR chinghao

OR " qing-hao " OR " ching-hao " OR " ching-hao-su " OR " artemisiae-

annuae " OR " sweet-wormwood " OR " sweet-annie " OR

artemisinines)

 

However, Medline has no hits on the terms: qing-hao-su, chinghao,

ching-hao, ching-hao-su, artemisiae-annuae, or sweet-annie.

 

Therefore, these terms were omitted from a Medline search, and

the Qinghao-related part of the search was reduced to:

(qinghaosu OR artemisinin OR qinghao OR " artemisia-annua " OR

artemisinins OR artemisinine OR " qing-hao " OR " sweet-

wormwood " OR artemisinines)

That search had 1615 Medline hits. See: http://tinyurl.com/3wpmo

 

4. Combination of Searhes (2) AND (3) had ZERO Medline hits

[see: http://tinyurl.com/42yu5 ] for:

(lymphoid-neoplasia* OR lymphoid-cancer* OR lymphosarcoma*

OR lymphoma* OR hodgkin's OR hodgkins) AND (qinghaosu OR

artemisinin OR qinghao OR " artemisia-annua " OR artemisinins OR

artemisinine OR " qing-hao " OR " sweet-wormwood " OR

artemisinines)

 

5. However, there were 37 hits [ http://tinyurl.com/4m3tg ] for a

Medline search for:

(neoplas* OR cancer* OR sarcoma*) AND (qinghaosu OR

artemisinin OR qinghao OR " artemisia-annua " OR artemisinins OR

artemisinine OR " qing-hao " OR " sweet-wormwood " OR

artemisinines)

 

As an aftethought, I ran the profile:

(leucaemi* OR leukaem* OR leukem* OR leucem*) AND

(qinghaosu OR artemisinin OR qinghao OR " artemisia-annua " OR

artemisinins OR artemisinine OR " qing-hao " OR " sweet-

wormwood " OR artemisinines)

There were 14 hits [ http://tinyurl.com/3jptu ].

 

CONCLUSION: Medline had no hits on Qinghao-related topics and

lymphoid-type cancers, but had 37 hits on Qinghao-related tiopics

and OTHER cancers, including 14 hits on leukaemia or related

conditions.

 

WWW gives a different picture altogether! There are many CLAIMS

" out there " that Qinghao (or related approaches) may influence

many forms of cancer, including lymphoid-type cancers.

 

Below is a long look at search strategies on Altavista versus

Google. The bottom line is that AltaVista gets far more hits than

Google. However, one must question the scientific valiidity of

WWW claime that are unsupported by published work on Medline.

 

Best regards,

Phil

 

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

 

Excerpts from a mail earlier this evening to Stan Rice of

http://members.cruzio.com/~autospec/

 

Hi Stan,

 

, a professional veterinary researcher and a practitioner

of acupuncture and Traditional , here.

 

Your concept of " Go for the nectar! " [

http://members.cruzio.com/~autospec/ ] appeals to me very much!

 

Though there is a vast amount of info on WWW, I am frustrated by

my inability to " find the nectar " [the genuine, reliable data] using

standard Engines.

 

I find Google inadequate because one can use only 10 words in a

single search. Therefore, one cannot do a complex search on it.

For example, see the examples, below. If you disagree, please tell

me how!

 

I wanted to search for WWW data on the following concept:

QINGHAO (a chinese herb), and its synonyms, in relation to:

CANCER of the lymphoid tissues, and their synonyms.

 

A search of scientific (by paid subscription only) databases would

use a complex profile, such as in the detailed example (A) + (L),

below.

 

In contrast, AltaVista Advanced is much easier to use and gives

more hits in complex searches than Google. However, Altavista

also has quirks that I do not understand.

 

For example by switching keyweod positios in a profile, or dropping

brackets, one gets different numbers of hits for the same search

words! Try this in AltaVista [ www.altavista.com/ ]:

 

" qing-hao " OR QINGHAO (2100 hits)

( " qing-hao " OR QINGHAO) (2060 hits)

[The brackets removed 40 hits]

 

And:

QINGHAO OR " qing-hao " (2050 hits)

(QINGHAO OR " qing-hao " ) (2050 hits)

[The hits were less than when the hyphenated term went first, but

the brackets made no difference!]

 

These quirks (and those described below) make me wonder if am

using the AltaVista and/or Google engines correctly. I would

greatly appreciate your tips on

 

(1) Which WWW engine(s) you find the best for complex searches

related to health & medicine,

 

and

 

(b) How to formulate a complex (Boolean) WWW Search to link

concepts (a) and (b) above to the best advantage.

 

More details on comparisons between Google and Altavista follow.

 

Best regards,

 

 

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

 

QUIRKS OF GOOGLE & ALTAVISTA Engines, by ,

Dublin, Nov 3, 2004

 

This note compares the outputs from complex searches on the

Advanced (Boolean Search) option on AltaVista [

www.altavista.com/web/adv ] versus the Basic Google Engine [

www.google.com/ ]. [The Google Advanced Search [

www.google.com/advanced_search ] was no better than the Basic

Search, and was more difficult to use because the OR statements

had to be removed from the decided searches, as below].

 

Several quirks emerged from these searches. They are described,

with specific examples, below.

 

(a) Google allows only 10 search terms, including hyphenated

terms. If the 10th term is the second (or later) part of a hyphenated

term, (for example, “qing” in the term “qing-hao-su”), many

irrelevant hits (relating to its first part (“qing”, in the cited example)

are returned. Therefore, it is not possible to search Google for

complex strings, with many “OR” statements.

 

(b) In the search examples, below, Google omitted the

CAPITALISED search terms. That omission resulted in less hits

than one would expect, as indicated by the asterisk (*) in the

Google Hits column, below.

 

© Google also returns different numbers of hits for exactly the

same profiles (for example A, B, C below) in searches done, say

10 or 20 minutes later, The numbers can go up or down, for no

apparent reason!

 

(d) CONCLUSIONS: Overall, it would seem that AltaVista was

easier to use for complex searches, and returned more hits than

Google. The RELEVANCE of the hits (from both sources was not

examined.

 

1. What happens when PLURAL forms are included as “OR”

options with singular forms?: Google gives LESS hits, whereas, as

one might expect, Altavista gives MORE hits. Also, Altavista

returns hit numbers that are multiple times greater than Google.

 

For example: Hits on Google Basic v Hits on Altavista Advanced

 

A For SINGULAR forms of the search terms: ( " lymphoid-

neoplasia” OR " lymphoid-cancer " OR lymphosarcoma OR

lymphoma OR hodgkin's OR hodgkins) 480,000 1,630,000

 

B For PLURAL forms of the search terms: ( " lymphoid-neoplasias”

OR " lymphoid-cancers " OR lymphosarcomas OR lymphomas OR

hodgkin's OR hodgkins) 244,000 992,000

 

C For BOTH OPTIONS (singular or plural): ( " lymphoid-neoplasia”

OR " lymphoid-cancer " OR lymphosarcoma OR lymphoma OR

hodgkin's OR hodgkins OR " lymphoid-neoplasias” OR " LYMPHOID-

CANCERS " OR LYMPHOSARCOMAS OR LYMPHOMAS)

365,000* 1,860,000

 

2. Reversal of the SEQUENCE of the SAME search terms

changes the number of hits on Google AND Altavista:

 

D ( " lymphoid-neoplasia” OR " lymphoid-cancer " OR

lymphosarcoma OR lymphoma OR hodgkin's OR hodgkins)

480,000 1,630,000

 

E (hodgkins OR hodgkin's OR lymphoma OR " lymphoid-cancer "

OR " lymphoid-neoplasia " OR lymphosarcoma) 475,000

1,660,000

 

F (lymphoma OR hodgkin's OR hodgkins OR " lymphoid-cancer "

OR " lymphoid-neoplasia " OR lymphosarcoma) 477,000

1,650,000

 

G (lymphosarcoma OR lymphoma OR hodgkin's OR hodgkins OR

" lymphoid-cancer " OR " lymphoid-neoplasia " ) 473,000

1,620,000

 

H ( " lymphoid-cancer " OR " lymphoid-neoplasia” OR

lymphosarcoma OR lymphoma OR hodgkin's OR hodgkins)

473,000 1,620,000

 

I Same as © except that the plurals were put in first:

( " lymphoid-neoplasias” OR " lymphoid-cancers " OR

lymphosarcomas OR lymphomas OR hodgkin's OR hodgkins OR

" lymphoid-neoplasia” OR " LYMPHOID-CANCER " OR

LYMPHOSARCOMA OR LYMPHOMA) 234,000 1,810,000

 

3. SECOND PART OF CONCEPT - QINGHAO or " OR

qinghaosu, etc

 

J SINGULAR: (qinghaosu OR artemisinin OR QINGHAO OR

" artemisia-annua " OR " qing-hao-su " OR " qing-hao " OR

ARTEMISININE OR CHINGHAO OR " CHING-HAO " OR " CHING-

HAO-SU " OR " ARTEMISIAE-ANNUAE " OR " SWEET-

WORMWOOD " OR " SWEET-ANNIE " ) 30,300* 52,900

 

K PLURAL (where plural form exists) or SINGULAR (where only

singulars exist): (qinghaosu OR artemisinins OR QINGHAO OR

" artemisia-annua " OR " qing-hao-su " OR " qing-hao " OR

ARTEMISININES OR CHINGHAO OR " CHING-HAO " OR " CHING-

HAO-SU " OR " ARTEMISIAE-ANNUAE " OR " SWEET-

WORMWOOD " OR " SWEET-ANNIE " ) 16,600* 37,900

 

L BOTH options, but optimized to get the best value for 10 words

in the Google string: (qinghaosu OR artemisinin OR QINGHAO OR

" artemisia-annua " OR artemisinins OR " qing-hao-su " OR

artemisinine OR CHINGHAO OR " QING-HAO " OR " CHING-HAO "

OR " CHING-HAO-SU " OR " ARTEMISIAE-ANNUAE " OR " SWEET-

WORMWOOD " OR " SWEET-ANNIE " OR ARTEMISININES)

31,300* 53,000

 

4. COMBINATION of the TWO CONCEPTS (Lymphoma etc +

Qinghao etc) using maximum hit numbers for each concepts, i.e.:

 

M Combine (A + L) for Google, and (A + L, and C + L) for

Altavista Google=405* (see hits on: tinyurl.com/6ghr8 ),

whereas AltaVista=961 (A+L), or 944 (C+L) (see hits on:

tinyurl.com/7xopz and tinyurl.com/3jbav

 

* Note: Profile (A) was entered on the Basic Google search, and

Profile (L) was added by taking the option “Search WITHIN

Results”, at the bottom left side of each Google Results Page.

 

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

 

Stan, I would appreciate any tips that you can give to help me

formulate complex searches on WWW Engines.

 

I have no problem with the professional databases, because their

“front-end” search facilities are very powerful. But Web Engines do

not allow that precision of focus. Or if they do, I have failed to find it

so far!

 

 

Best regards,

 

Email: <

 

WORK : Teagasc, c/o 1 Esker Lawns, Lucan, Dublin, Ireland

Mobile: 353-; [in the Republic: 0]

 

HOME : 1 Esker Lawns, Lucan, Dublin, Ireland

Tel : 353-; [in the Republic: 0]

WWW : http://homepage.eircom.net/~progers/searchap.htm

 

Chinese Proverb: " Man who says it can't be done, should not interrupt man doing

it "