PubMed query problem

[Jayakumar, R]

I rarely use Pubmed to do my searches.  scholar.google.com does a much
much better job than PUBMED.
Jai

-----Original Message-----
From: methods-bounces from oat.bio.indiana.edu
[mailto:methods-bounces from oat.bio.indiana.edu] On Behalf Of Duncan Clark
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 3:58 AM
To: methods from magpie.bio.indiana.edu
Subject: Re: PubMed query problem

Historians believe that in newspost
<1179271012.138608.294220 from p77g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> on Tue, 15 May
2007, WS <novalidaddress from nurfuerspam.de> penned the following literary
masterpiece:
>I know that I could include the [author] directive, but why do I the 
>get the paper, when I add the initials?

Presumably because the search engine software knows that a word followed
by letter is most likely to be an author name? There is a lot on syntax
in the help and FAQ's but an e-mail to Pubmed themselves may get an
explanation.

Duncan
--
I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing noise they make as
they go flying by.

Duncan Clark
GeneSys Ltd.
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