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(tye)Re: Searching and Typing

by tye (Sage)
on May 28, 2002 at 15:11 UTC ( [id://169789]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Searching and Typing

It's a feature. If you want all matches, then add a nonsense "word" to your search. For example malaga askwifja will find all nodes with "malaga" in their titles (since there are no nodes with "askwifja" in their titles).

A feature to make this easier is probably forthcoming. everything2.org has an "ignore exact matches" checkbox. I'm leaning more toward a link at the top of the page that says "list all nodes with similar titles".

Update: Simple search was updated a while ago to use "full text search" in hopes of reducing DB load. Unfortunately it makes simple search less useful (you can't search for tcp in node titles, for example, since "full text search" doesn't index 3-letter words or shorter; and you can't search for partial words) so we will probably be backing that out when we get a chance.

Update2: Simple search has been updated again. And it will eventually be updated again. However, a good approach is to just repeat the word you are searching on twice. So search for "malaga malaga".

        - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")

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