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Example
Version March 2000
Topic tablet: an example
This is just a first example, I hope to 'refine' this more and more with your help.

~S~ Topic tablet
version 200003
Broad subject (quarry)
 
improving my www-searching capabilities
Unique words
 
advanced web-searching techniques
Synonims and variants
 
web search*
expert net-seeking strategies
efficient searching advices
searching ~ hints / how-to / tips
focussed crawling
advanced information retrieval
resource discovery
Abbreviations
 
sew (search engines watch)
sphinx (site specific personalized crawler)
Groups
 
trec (text retrieval conference)
Words likely to be present
in any document
 
document*; information;
result*; evaluat*; "search engine*"
Fixed strings
 
"data mining"; "search engine*"
"information retrieval"
Irrelevant & extraneous
 
sex; tits; teens; "make money";
Broader topics
 
indexing; filtering; "electronic databases"
Extra, special for this query
 
"search engine*"

Judge by yourself a couple of simple attempts... as you'll see, to begin with you just use the SIMPLE Altavista search form...

[First try]
+"web-search*", find, advanced, retrieval, "net-seeking", crawling, resources

[Second try]
+"search engine*", +search*, tips, techniques, "finding pages", results, efficient
I'll add more complex examples asap, you may send and contribute as well, ya know...
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