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From: Ivor Williams
Subject: [grubstreet] more on searching (was FW: /var/log/apache/grault.net-error.log)
Date: 12:30 on 17 Dec 2002
On Tuesday, December 17, 2002 10:39 AM, Ivor Williams 
[SMTP:iwilliams@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx] wrote:
>
> On Monday, December 16, 2002 6:50 PM, Earle Martin [SMTP:earle@xxxxxxxx.xxx]
> wrote:
> > Also, I was wondering, how are the search results ordered?
> >
> The search results are sorted on the number of matches. For example, doing a
> search on"pub" finds 93 pages on GS at the moment. The top page is "Category
> Pubs", which has 13 occurrences of the word "pub" - not including the word
> "pubs" which don't count as matches.

Note: the 'old' search gives 142 matches, but this is including 'pubs' etc.

To make my new search match on this, searching "pub*", (or "*pub*" which more 
closely matches the 'old' mechanism) gives 142 matches.

But "pub*" would also match 'public right of way' and other such, and "*pub*" 
would match 'Coffee Republic" - oops!



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