Hmmmm. What browser are you using? Not that it should matter, but I sometimes see differences for certain sites. +[pbs] [hippeastrum] site:///lists.ibiblio.org got me 823 hits using both Firefox and IE from a PC. 255 hits using 'fertilizer'. Interesting that the spaces are unnecessary: +[pbs][hippeastrum]site:///lists.ibiblio.org seems to work just as well. Smart Google. I hope a more savvy member can help. Regards, -Phil >From: "Jim McKenney" <jimmckenney@starpower.net> >Reply-To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> >To: "'Pacific Bulb Society'" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> >Subject: Re: [pbs] Best bulb fertilizer--Archive Search >Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 17:31:22 -0500 > >Dear Mary Sue and others, > >I've been trying to use Mary Sue's search formula, +[pbs] [search terms] >site:///lists.ibiblio.org on Google today without much success. Even when I >used the example given, i.e. searching on the word fertilizer, I got only >46 >hits instead of the 261 Mary Sue reported. > >I also searched on words which I'm sure I've seen in pbs postings, but >without finding any. > >Does anyone have any idea what I am doing wrong? I've played around with >the >spacing, I've copied and pasted directly from Mary Sue's email, I've >monkeyed around with the search terms: so far, very little success. > > >Jim McKenney > >_______________________________________________ >pbs mailing list >pbs@lists.ibiblio.org >http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php