RE: Searches on OTN

  • From: "Bobak, Mark" <Mark.Bobak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 15:04:58 -0500

Tom,

I ran into this just last night.  Ryan was asking about Bjorn Engsig's paper, 
and I had no luck searching for it.
I eventually found an old reference containing the path which was still good 
(or, at least, close enough).

I tried "cursor sharing Engsig", "cursor_sharing Engsig", and a few other 
variations, and what I got was truly bizarre.

I just tried it again, and got results like:
 Type Your Title Here:  Oracle9i Database O O R RA AC CL LE E9 9 I I P P E ER 
RF FO OR RM MA AN NC CE E M M A AN NA AG GE EM ME EN NT T: : T T... 
 Oracle7 Server:  Oracle Database 10g: The Self- Managing Database An Oracle 
White Paper Nov. 2003 Oracle Database 10g: The Self-Managing...

and my favorite:
        
Microsoft Word - Boost SQL Pe&: %RRVW64/3HUIRUPDQFHZLWK FXUVRUBVKDULQJ 
$Q2UDFOH7HFKQLFDO:KLWH3DSHU -XO\ %RRVW64/3HUIRUPDQFHZLWKFXUVRUBVKDULQJ3DJH... 

Yeah, that makes sense.....not!

So, yeah, I think it pretty much sucks.

-Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: Mercadante, Thomas F [mailto:thomas.mercadante@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 2:40 PM
To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Searches on OTN


Has anyone tried searching for something on the Oracle Technet Site?  I'm
not sure what searching software they use, but it returns the more random
list of stuff I've ever seen.

Try searching for one of their software products and see what happens.  You
get everything but what you ask for.  I've been trying to find info on
Oracle Pure Names.  And yesterday, on Oracle Work Flow.  You'd think that if
you entered those things in the search field, it would come up with a list
of stuff that, at the top of the list, would be their own product.

I guess I'm not doing it right.

Tom Mercadante
Oracle Certified Professional

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