monkdiscuss
brianarn
First off, I know that there are currently some problems with Super Search, and that I'm better off searching using [thepen]'s setup for a lot of searching. However, this isn't something I encountered using Super Search, but just a vanilla search.<br /><br />
The other day, I was having some questions about e-mail, which lead me to questions about [MX Lookups], and [grinder] was of real help in that regard - there's a reply in the [MX Lookups] post. However, I got my help late in the evening, and I didn't mark down the node I was looking for, or the root node or anything.<br /><br />
So, I came back, and I punched in [MX Lookup] - without the S. I was hoping that [id://173274] would come up for me - id 173274, but I got a bunch of results that didn't say MX at all.<br /><br />
I heard someone say once that the way search works, is by searching each individual term in the search string, then merging the results, or maybe it was searching each individual string, then taking the intersection of the sets - either way, I also understand that searching ignores requests of 3 or less characters.<br /><br />
It would seem to me that not searching on those will affect searches for:
<ul>
<li>[DNS]</li>
<li>[XML]</li>
<li>[MX]</li>
<li>[Tk]</li>
</ul>
etc etc. [CGI] actually pulls up some documentation, so that one is a bit unique - it doesn't do a CGI search, just some docs.<br /><br />
I know nothing about how [http://www.everydevel.com|everything] is implemented - but I was wondering if maybe a list of these shorter terms could be compiled and added to valid searches. Obviously, a search on the word 'of' should probably return empty - but things like XML, Tk and the like would be nice if they actually pulled up results - I don't even know how I came across [id://173274] again - I think I got lucky and tried searching some extra terms that did it.
<br /><br /><i><font color="blue">~Brian</font></i>