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Re: and or not ( ) "" in euforum search

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com> Jul 06, 2005
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Pete Stoner wrote:
> Rubens wrote:
> snipped
> > May I suggest a simple improvement to the Euforum search function ?
> > 
> > Add operators like and, not, or (  )  and " " to the query.
> 
>   I would like to second this request, I know that quotes (" ") are already
>   supported
> but I am frequently frustrated by the lack of 'and' at least. Its difficult to
> search
> the forum when one word may produce 1000 hits and the addition of second word
> increases
> the number of hits, instead of reducing them...

If you follow the "Powered by Euphoria" link, you'll see that
the scoring system already does "and" (more or less),
in that messages that match all the search words will 
generally come first, followed by partial matches. 

Since this question keeps coming up, I might change it so
that 100% of the full matches come before any partial matches,
and I'll tell you at the start how many of each type there are, 
and I'll make a title, or somehow label the partial matches. That way
people who want "and" can stop reading when they get to the
partial matches. People who want "or" can keep reading.
It doesn't take me any more time to generate the extra results.

Personally, I don't recall ever using "not" in a search engine.
I rarely use any logical connectives on Google.

Regards,
   Rob Craig
   Rapid Deployment Software
   http://www.RapidEuphoria.com