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Wickes search facility.
Just typed in 'tool storage'.
Amongst the results were; Drain & Gutter Cleaning Kit, Roma Masonry BBQ , Telescopic Steel Bypass Lopper, Patio Scrubber, Large Garden Trolley! I won't be keeping my jigsaw in a masonry BBQ :-) -- Dave - The Medway Handyman www.medwayhandyman.co.uk |
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Wickes search facility.
In article , The Medway Handyman
writes Just typed in 'tool storage'. Amongst the results were; Drain & Gutter Cleaning Kit, Roma Masonry BBQ , Telescopic Steel Bypass Lopper, Patio Scrubber, Large Garden Trolley! I think the supplier site searches are all a bit crap. Try eg. tool storage site:wickes.co.uk in your favourite search engine. I'm currently sampling a new one: https://ixquick.co.uk/ , you can define custom search rules in the URL the way you used to be able to in google before they broke it. Here's one to return 50 results instead of the usual 10: https://ixquick.co.uk/do/mypage.pl?p...f_resultsEEE50 You can build your own and save it as a tinurl - http://tinyurl.com/ -- fred it's a ba-na-na . . . . |
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Wickes search facility.
Most of these site searches seem to throw up daft results. I'd imagine this
is due to them not being searches merely of the item short description and probably any part of your term can be tested to any bit of whatever is written about an item. Brian -- Brian Gaff....Note, this account does not accept Bcc: email. graphics are great, but the blind can't hear them Email: __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ __________ "The Medway Handyman" wrote in message ... Just typed in 'tool storage'. Amongst the results were; Drain & Gutter Cleaning Kit, Roma Masonry BBQ , Telescopic Steel Bypass Lopper, Patio Scrubber, Large Garden Trolley! I won't be keeping my jigsaw in a masonry BBQ :-) -- Dave - The Medway Handyman www.medwayhandyman.co.uk |
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Wickes search facility.
The Medway Handyman explained on 25/05/2013 :
Just typed in 'tool storage'. Amongst the results were; Drain & Gutter Cleaning Kit, Roma Masonry BBQ , Telescopic Steel Bypass Lopper, Patio Scrubber, Large Garden Trolley! I won't be keeping my jigsaw in a masonry BBQ :-) Google's 'search this site' is much better. -- Regards, Harry (M1BYT) (L) http://www.ukradioamateur.co.uk |
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Wickes search facility.
In article , Brian Gaff
writes Have youtried their other one, startpage.com? I had thought they pointed to the same engine but it appears startpage is just an anonymising front end for google. One of the reasons for moving away from them was to get more accurate search results as I have got bored with them pushing what they want me to hear rather than what I had explicitly asked for. eg. Putting a particular query word in quotes to indicate it as a must have and finding several results near the top where the word didn't appear at all. I'm a bit disappointed to see them getting into bed with google. -- fred it's a ba-na-na . . . . |
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