TELECOM Digest Editor noted in response to -mhd :
For example, if I Google for 'Patrick Townson' I get a jillion
> entries, but not all of them for that entire name: I get many
> entries for 'Patrick' this and 'Patrick' that; ditto for various
> Townson(s), only occassionally in the desired context of 'Patrick
> Townson'. Either single or double quoting the entire expression does
> not seem to help and with clusters of numbers it seems to act like a
> calculator. What are the rules on Google Searches and where can I
> find them? Anyone? PAT]
I think matching pairs in quotes get higher ranking then Google includes other results in case someone had a web page that mentioned a "Townson who goes by the name Patrick".
-mhd