CHANGES TO ENGINES MEAN SIMPLER SEARCHES.(Technology)(Column) From: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY) | Date: May 7, 2003 | COPYRIGHT 2003 All rights reserved. Reproduced with the permission of The Herald Co. by the Gale Group, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

Byline: JAN DEMPSEY STAFF RESEARCHER

"Are there really 335,000 Jan Dempseys listed on the Internet?"

That sentence introduced my first "In search of ..." column almost three years ago. I went on to explain the use of quotation marks to indicate that you're searching a proper name or an exact phrase, and what happens in a search engine when you don't use them.

Entering a proper name or an exact phrase without using quotation marks pulls up results that have those words listed anywhere on a page. The words may not even be close to one another. That's why you find ...

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