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Re: LUGNET search page request
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Date: 
Wed, 12 May 1999 21:21:13 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, jsproat@geocities.com (Sproaticus) writes:
That's weird; I sometimes see results with just A or just B above results
with both A and B.  e.g., search for "Lego Maniac", and I see two results
with just "Lego", one with "Lego - Maniac", one with "Lego", etc.

This is because of the way scoring works.  An article that has "LEGO Maniac"
way down at the bottom is getting a lower score than an article that has
lots of occurrences of "LEGO" or "Maniac" or a few of them near the top or
in the subject line.

The weighted scoring usually works really nicely, but here's a case where it
doesn't.


Mmmmm...  Alta Vista...  Drool...

Excuse me.  *ahem*  Yes, that would be keen.

Yea, the Alta Vista's syntax would make this work great -- if you could
specify

   +LEGO +Maniac

or

   "LEGO Maniac"

instead of

   LEGO Maniac

then it would get a lot closer to what you wanted.

--Todd



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  Re: LUGNET search page request
 
(...) Another really cool thing would to be able to sort the results by date, or at least by ng name / article number. Cheers, - jsproat (26 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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  Re: LUGNET search page request
 
(...) That's weird; I sometimes see results with just A or just B above results with both A and B. e.g., search for "Lego Maniac", and I see two results with just "Lego", one with "Lego - Maniac", one with "Lego", etc. Plus, there are times when I (...) (26 years ago, 12-May-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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