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Article #247Re: ISO country codes
From: Nick Leverton
Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 00:00
Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 00:00
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Anthony Naggs <amn@ubik.demon.co.uk> writes:
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>My thanks to all for the replies. I obviously have somethings to learn
>in framing my queries on AltaVista, ("iso country code" and similar
>throw up thousands of mentions but not definitions).
I find Alta Vista's simple interface is useless, because its simplistic
weighting mechanism generates so many irrelevant matches. Use the
advanced one, which allows one to filter articles using the top box,
including booleans, "A near B" and exclusions, and then to apply
weighting keywords using the lower box to being the most-relevant
articles up first. Sadly the master ISO3166 on ftp.ripe.net isn't
indexed, for some reason, but with filtering and weighting most of the
links are relevant.
F/U to poster, this isn't really relevant here (I'd take it to
d.i.discoveries if I thought it was still a useful group).
Nick
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