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Re: Searching on "multiword phrases" [message #21819 is a reply to message #21817]

Sat, 18 December 2004 17:27

srchild

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Ilia wrote on Sat, 18 December 2004 17:20

FUDforum search works just fine on multi-word phrases, it'll match all words in the phrase using either AND or OR logic depending on what is aked by the user.

Yes it does. But it doesn't (so far as I can see) distinguish between whether the words are adjacent, or just that they are both somewhere in the document?

An example may help. If I want to find only records containing the phrase "forum users" and I search on forum AND users, I will find not only examples of 'forum users' but also other records containing phrases such as 'Car users who visit this forum will not find much information here'. I didn't want to find that record, I wanted to find information about 'forum users'.

This is more relevant if the words are common words and so may occur frequently but are only of interest if they make a single phrase. The real example for my user was that in a technical group he wanted to search on "time server" and he encountered a lot of hits on 'server' and 'time' but none on time servers.

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		Searching on "multiword phrases" By: srchild on Sat, 18 December 2004 10:46
		Re: Searching on "multiword phrases" By: Ilia on Sat, 18 December 2004 17:20
		Re: Searching on "multiword phrases" By: srchild on Sat, 18 December 2004 17:27
		Re: Searching on "multiword phrases" By: Ilia on Sat, 18 December 2004 18:23

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