[Info-vax] VMS Noob: Help Wanted

[Paul Sture]

Dale Dellutri wrote:

> On Tue, 03 Dec 2013 15:09:49, johnwallace4 at gmail.com wrote:
>> On Tuesday, December 3, 2013 4:59:12 PM UTC, dle... at schoolfortomorrow.net wrote:
>> > How do I decompress system libraries? Thx!
>
>> Welcome, and thanks for asking. You've got the answer now from Simon.
>
>> As a little experiment, I asked 3 search engines
>> "How do I decompress vms system libraries?" (spot the os-specificness).
>
>> Google gave me relevant VMS doc pages (in html) in the first few hits. Neither 
>> bing nor duckduckgo were anything like as useful (putting it politely). Other
>> search engines are available.
>
>>...
>
> Actually, all three give nearly the same answer if you use:
>
>   openvms decompress system libraries
>
> "openvms" as a search term works better for all vms enquiries.

"vms" or "VMs" has become a very popular abbreviation for "Virtual
Machines" and this shows in search results.

It is also a possibility that John is seeing the results of Google
giving him "tailored" results.

And I am probably seeing results "tailored" for me, of course :-)


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Paul Sture