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Re: newsgroups search modifiers ?
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lugnet.admin.database
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Sat, 24 Feb 2001 20:47:06 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.database, "Ray Sanders" <rsanders@svic.net> writes:
> Is there a page that explains/defines what are the valid modifiers to a
> newsgroup search request ? I seem to recall a message that you posted right
> after the big newsgroups search engine downtime which showed some examples
There's now a little round blue question mark link graphic that takes you to
a help area on searching (just added a few minutes ago). It's not on all of
the pages yet, but it is on all of the news pages and on the main homepage.
> (such as how to target a search to a particular relative date). I tried that,
> but don't see any effect on the search results.
What did you type?
> My searches always seem to return
> the oldest items first, which is a pain if I get a large number of hits and what
> I'm looking for is more recent.
If it's really returning oldest items first, you might be asking it to look
too far back in time (like 2-3 years). By default it returns items based on
relevance only (no chronological considerations). I'll probably put it back
the way it was before where by default it returned items based on a fuzzy
combination of relevance and recentness.
--Todd
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