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Re: search by "Phrase" (not "Keyword[s]")
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Date: 
Sat, 2 Dec 2000 18:57:48 GMT
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In lugnet.people.newbie, Franklin W. Cain writes:
You can verify this for yourself.  Enter the keywords
"+Lego +geek +code" into the Search black, and you will get
messages with the words "Lego", "geek", and "code",
in whatever order they appear.  When I do this,
I see dozens of messages by someone who has a "geek code"
(_non_-Lego geek code, I point out) in his ".sig" file
(aka signature block).  I would get the _exact_ same results
if I search using the keywords "+code +geek +Lego",
which is clearly _not_ the same _phrase_...

Todd?  Is this function available?  If so, how do I use it?

It's not, no.  It'd be there now if I knew how to make it execute efficiently.

--Todd



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  Re: search by "Phrase" (not "Keyword[s]")
 
(...) How bad is it? When I need it, I really really need it, and I'd be willing to have to go through a "do you really mean to do this, it's gonna be slow and you may wait a long time because I'm gonna set the priority on this thread really low so (...) (24 years ago, 3-Dec-00, to lugnet.people.newbie, lugnet.faq)

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  Re: search by "Phrase" (not "Keyword[s]")
 
(...) Let me explain. :-) The info at the URL you gave me, i.e., using plus signs in front of the keywords, will guarantee that all results of the search will have those keywords _in_ _any_ _order_. They do _not_ guarantee that I will find a (...) (24 years ago, 2-Dec-00, to lugnet.people.newbie, lugnet.faq)

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