From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"Randall Parker"

wrote in message news:434ff52e$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Weird thing with Google: I did a search on asp.net and got a single search
> result. How come?
>
>
http://www.google.com/search?num=50&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&c2coff=1&q=asp.net&btn
G=Search

It's because of stupid idiots in marketing departments thinking of names
that are not names and cannot be searched in any meaningful way. If you put
".net" as a search term, well, it's a domain extension so it's
almost impossible to give any rational results. Then you're left with
"asp", which - surprise surprise - is a file name extension, so
the "results" for it would be just about every asp file.

Try searching for: "asp.net" programming  - with quotes around
"asp.net" and programming as another word. I got just under 10
million hits with that - though I don't know if that helps or makes it
worse ;-)


Antti Kurenniemi
(never done any asp, so can't help with that)

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