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Search Engine 'Fun'.
In looking at David's "Auction(s) of the Week", I thought I'd check
Yaboo for any Penny Reds or other UK material I'm hunting. Unfortunately (as do many US dealers) they confuse the Commonwealth with Great Britain and lump them all as 'one'. "Can I help you?" "I'm looking for Great Britain" "Oh, yes, I have some very nice Canada!" To separate out ... I tried a simple search. They responded; with; " No Search Results found for GB or Britain in British Commonwealth". |
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In looking at David's "Auction(s) of the Week", I thought I'd check
Yaboo for any Penny Reds or other UK material I'm hunting. Unfortunately (as do many US dealers) they confuse the Commonwealth with Great Britain and lump them all as 'one'. "Can I help you?" "I'm looking for Great Britain" "Oh, yes, I have some very nice Canada!" To separate out ... I tried a simple search. They responded; with; " No Search Results found for GB or Britain in British Commonwealth". You know that GB stamps do not have the country name on them. The sellers on Yahoo are just following that tradition. = Eric Behold! I am a collector of "Stamps With No Name"! David. |
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"J. A. Mc." wrote in message
... Yep ... humor G FWIW There are several hundred GB listings in the "Commonwealth" section Just that the search engine failed to parse the search properly and produced the little line of (to me) humor. Shouldn't that be "humour"? |
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If you u are there, you are not here, but here I don't need u. I am in the
USA. Tony "Steve Grant" wrote in message ... "J. A. Mc." wrote in message ... Yep ... humor G FWIW There are several hundred GB listings in the "Commonwealth" section Just that the search engine failed to parse the search properly and produced the little line of (to me) humor. Shouldn't that be "humour"? |
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On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:39:12 +0200, "bc92" wrote:
In , J. A. Mc. complained: In looking at David's "Auction(s) of the Week", I thought I'd check Yaboo for any Penny Reds or other UK material I'm hunting. Unfortunately (as do many US dealers) they confuse the Commonwealth with Great Britain and lump them all as 'one'. "Can I help you?" "I'm looking for Great Britain" "Oh, yes, I have some very nice Canada!" To separate out ... I tried a simple search. They responded; with; " No Search Results found for GB or Britain in British Commonwealth". Hi, I fail to see the problem, In my version of Yahoo.com (US), Great Britain items are found in the "United Kingdom" list, which appears in "Europe", not "British Commonwealth". Am I missing something ? No. Other than the UK is also part of the Commonwealth, as are Malta, Gibraltar and Cyprus which are all (I believe) also in Europe - if not the European Union. Blair -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =----- |
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TC, Cyprus is in Asia, even though the Greek majority is European.
Tony "TC" wrote in message ... On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:39:12 +0200, "bc92" wrote: In , J. A. Mc. complained: In looking at David's "Auction(s) of the Week", I thought I'd check Yaboo for any Penny Reds or other UK material I'm hunting. Unfortunately (as do many US dealers) they confuse the Commonwealth with Great Britain and lump them all as 'one'. "Can I help you?" "I'm looking for Great Britain" "Oh, yes, I have some very nice Canada!" To separate out ... I tried a simple search. They responded; with; " No Search Results found for GB or Britain in British Commonwealth". Hi, I fail to see the problem, In my version of Yahoo.com (US), Great Britain items are found in the "United Kingdom" list, which appears in "Europe", not "British Commonwealth". Am I missing something ? No. Other than the UK is also part of the Commonwealth, as are Malta, Gibraltar and Cyprus which are all (I believe) also in Europe - if not the European Union. Blair -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =----- |
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A.E. Gelat wrote in article ... TC, Cyprus is in Asia, even though the Greek majority is European. Tony Both Cyprus and Turkey are in Europe according to Royal Mail. Douglas |
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