Case Sensitive web searching

[Tea]

Does anyone know of a search engine that is, or can be set to be, fully case-sensitive? Google, for example, translates everything to lower case. Alta Vista uses a scheme to (if I remember correctly) treat lower case as upper case but not the reverse (i.e., searching for "tea" will find "tea" and "Tea" and "Tea" and "teA", but searching for "TEA" will only find "TEA". At or something like that, anyway. I don't think I've got that quite right, but you get the idea.

What I happen to need today is a search engine that is fully case-sensitive. I need to find out if (sticking with my self-refferential example) there are more hits fot "TEA" or "Tea". Google can't tell me.

By the way, I don't care about the links themselves, I just want to know the totals. Anyone know of a search engine that can do this?

TIA
Tea.
(... eer ... or should that be "tia"?)

 

[timwhit]

Check out this page your Majesty:

http://www2.widener.edu/Wolfgram-Memorial-Library/pyramid/setblsch.htm

 

[Tea]

Thankyou Tim. I'm trying to find out if I should prefer "ANZAC" or "Anzac" (both stand for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps", of course). Originally it was an acronym and spelled in all caps. But the really common acronyms tend to turn into ordinary words after a while. Examples include "radar" and "sonar"- both of which used to be "RADAR" and "SONAR", and are both younger terms than "ANZAC". (Or should that be "Anzac"?)

Infoseek doesn't give any counts, just page after page of links.

On Alta Vista , my first search for "ANZAC" yiielded 68,357 hits, my second search for "Anzac" ran to 69,781. From that, at first sight, I concluded that "ANZAC" accounts for all bar 1424 of the hits, and that with "Anzac" I was getting all the possible spellings. (i.e., "Anzac" plus "ANZAC" and "anzac". Which surprised me quite a bit - I had thought "Anzac" was more common than that.)

Unfortunately, when I checked with "anZac" I still got 69,781. And "anzac" gets 69,781. And, finally, searching on "ANZAC" once more gave me 69,781 instead of the original 68,357.

Sigh.

 

[timwhit]

I think the best way to figure this out is to visit all 69,781 pages and see how it was spelled on each page. This might take awhile, but isn't that what monkeys are for?

 

[Tea]

I am starting to realise that the permanently surprised, quite possibly shocked, expression on my face in my new avatar is entirely appropriate most of the time.

Zigh.