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

• Posted by Rubens <rml at rubis.trix.net> Jul 06, 2005
• 601 views

Hi Robert,

         Thanks for the attention.
         I think the example below shows the problem.

Try a search with this itens:
all years

listview settext color

I have here:
matched 7175 of 70788 messages

First point: How many of them contains the tree words ?

Second point: Scoring

Look at message number 7:
contais only "color"

Message number 8 contais listview, color and settext....

So I have to look all the 7175 messages to see
what I want...

I still think the use of operators could be a very usefull
tool.

Best Regards,

Rubens



At 18:22 6/7/2005, you wrote:
>
>
>posted by: Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com>
>
>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
>
>
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