RE: *** ADMIN: Archive search enhanced

That's great news, David!

Here's a simple (I think) request.  Would it be possible to throw a reminder
about the boolean option on the Match: dropdown?  Since it defaults to
'All', oftentimes I'll think the only other option is 'Any' and completely
forget about 'Boolean'.  (Now that I've written this, I'll probably never
forget that.)

*However*, one other enhancement would be to list the syntax that can be
used with the boolean search.  When I use 'A and B or C', which gets
evaluated first?  What about 'A or B and C'?  Is 'not' allowed?  etc.  What
other types of arguments are there?

- Dan Bale
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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com
[mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of David Gibbs
Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 6:30 PM
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: *** ADMIN: Archive search enhanced


Folks:

The archive search engine has been enhanced so that it will return results
that are more relevent to the search topic.

Two changes were made ...

1. The search engine only indexes the body of messages now, before it would
index the entire web page... including the headers & footers of the
message.  A search on the term "Thread" would return 8000+ pages ... now it
only returns 1000 or so.

2. Numbers are now indexed ... you can now search on the term 5294 and get
valid results.

If you have any questions about this, please contact me privately.

david
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