What we CAN do about the Yahoo search engine (was: Quantity vs quality)

[nkafkafi]

> > Neri:
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> > DEs: who, how many, and where are they now?
> > (Malfoy, Avery, Rockwood, Bellatrix, Dolohov, Azkaban)
> > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/74825
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> > 
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> Geoff:
> Looking at your example, I presume that you would want the lowest 
> numbered message number (i.e. the start message) because the rest 
> could be followed through from there, !Yahoo not being /too/ bad at 
> tracing local links.

Neri:
Er... not sure about this one either. I usually use only the first 
post in the thread, but sometimes a very good thread is triggered by 
a newbie's very short and dumb question, so it might be better to 
link to the first good post in the thread. Sometimes you have one 
very informative post in the middle of an otherwise low quality 
thread. Sometimes the thread is broken, so I think in this case it's 
best to give several links within the thread. This is also true for 
very long threads. Any suggestions? What I'm sure about is that any 
method would be far better than Yahoomort.

Neri