On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 00:55, Imran Ghory wrote:

Could someone explain why searching for,

George Robert Aberigh-Mackay

results in articles without that name in it ?

Imran

Wikipedia search isn't very strict. I bet the articles you see don't have *that* name in, but do have "George", or "Robert". The search will pick up the most related articles first - the articles with the most instances of *all* the target words (and maybe higher priority if they occur together, I dunno) but lower down you'll get matches on just one occurrence of any of the terms, and so on...since there's presumably no articles with the whole name "george robert aberigh-mackay" in them, you'll get articles with lots of "george", "robert", or "aberigh-mackay" in them high on the list instead. I think.