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Re: Search function -- inconsistent behaviour [message #16000 is a reply to message #15965]

Sun, 11 January 2004 20:38

wfjmueller

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From this I gather that now only words more than 3 characters are indexed. Before October the limit was obviously >=2.

I'm not really happy with this move. The reason is, that the world is full with 3 letter acronyms, and it is a pitty if the search function simply ignores them. In the project I'm involved in we have

LOI MOU CDR TDR STS TRD RPC CBM DSP HDL IOB LCB LHC SIS

and this is just what I remembered in less than a minute.

So ignoring 3 letter words and thus acronyms really weakens the index when it comes to technical forums. Imho a kill list with words to be ignored in the index would be a much better and cleaner solution. This is a widely adopted strategy, very efficient to implement, and usually such a kill list is not very long. However, it is certainly language specific, so should be chosen based on the board language.

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		Search function -- inconsistent behaviour By: wfjmueller on Fri, 09 January 2004 20:47
		Re: Search function -- inconsistent behaviour By: Ilia on Sat, 10 January 2004 20:04
		Re: Search function -- inconsistent behaviour By: wfjmueller on Sun, 11 January 2004 20:38
		Re: Search function -- inconsistent behaviour By: Ilia on Sun, 11 January 2004 20:41
		Re: Search function -- inconsistent behaviour By: wfjmueller on Sun, 11 January 2004 22:19
		Re: Search function -- inconsistent behaviour By: wfjmueller on Sun, 11 January 2004 22:22
		Re: Search function -- inconsistent behaviour By: Ilia on Sun, 11 January 2004 22:24

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