Re: Forum search

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Rich wrote:
> OK, thanks. But in this case I searched on a single word - does this mean that
> it is the number of occurences of that word in a post that determines its
> significance?

Roughly, but the length of the message is also taken
into account. A short message with 3 occurrences of a word gets
a higher score than a long message with 3 occurrences.
I also throw in a slight bias that favors recent messages 
over older ones. You can see the code here:

   http://www.rapideuphoria.com/esearch.txt

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

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