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In Reply to: Re: Search Engine with a "Memory" posted by Rod M on December 05, 2001 at 16:07:26:
That would be quite wonderful too. So too would be the option to open search results in a new window.
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What do you mean by opening a new window? At what point? To be honest, new windows bug me, but we could make it a check box option if I understood what you were after.You can do a phase now with the Slow Message search on the advanced page. I'm not sure, but it looks like the () will also support that. Here's a summary of the new search features in 4.0:
+ A plus sign prepended to a word indicates that this word must be present in every row returned.
- A minus sign prepended to a word indicates that this word must not be present in the rows
returned.
By default - without plus or minus - the word is optional, but the rows that contain it will be rated
higher. This mimicks the behaviour of MATCH ... AGAINST() without IN BOOLEAN MODE
modifier.
< > These two operators are used to increase and decrease word's contribution to the relevance value,
assigned to a row. See an example below.
( ) Parentheses are used - as usual - to group words into subexpressions.
~ This is negation operator. It makes word's contribution to the row relevance negative. It's useful
for marking noise words. A row that has such a word will be rated lower than others, but will not
be excluded altogether, as with - operator.
* This is truncation operator. Unlike others it should be appended to the word, not prepended.And here are some examples:
apple banana
find rows that contain at least one of these words.
+apple +juice
... both words
+apple macintosh
... word ``apple'', but rank it higher if it also contain ``macintosh''
+apple -macintosh
... word ``apple'' but not ``macintosh''
+apple +(> pie... ``apple'' and ``pie'', or ``apple'' and ``strudel'' (in any order), but rank ``apple pie'' higher than
``apple strudel''.
apple*
... ``apple'', ``apples'', ``applesauce'', and ``applet''
Version 4 looks to have some great features!When I wrote about new windows, I initially just meant that when you press the "Search" button, the main results page should pop up in a new window. But now that I think about it, it wouldn't be a bad idea (if you're going to use checkboxes anyway), to allow an option to make any search result that is clicked also open up in a new window. This makes it so that you don't have to press the back button to get back to the search result list each time you view an entry.
Another question I had is: do you know why the current advanced search form doesn't seem to work with Internet Explorer's Autocomplete feature? If you're not familiar with it, the feature normally remembers what you typed in your forms and allows you to pull that up again without re-entry. But for some reason it doesn't work with AA's advanced search...
I don't know about Autocomplete unless it wants tab index ids. I can look into it when we work on the search engine. My plan is to link or display the advanced options as well as translate natural language to it so saying 'and' would translate to a +word. To open a new window, you have to embed the call in a link, so I either have to have a check box when you do the search to format the links right or have 2 links. The latter might be simpler so it would be like this:Link to some topic header [ Open in New Window ]
Except for the fact that this could get real long, it seems like it would work. If I use a contsant target, you'd just get 2 windows, I think.
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