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> From: storm@cua.dk
> Date: 17 May 2002 00:26:43 +0200
> 
> A quick test shows that Google, Yahoo, Lycos uses AND
> while Altavista, Excite, AskJeeves uses OR.
> 
> That's 50/50...

Perhaps that's because they want to show off the number of hits they
return.  I was always annoyed by ORing, and many times catch myself
forgetting to type the magic that makes it do an AND.  Because I
always want the AND method.