[Mediawiki-l] Making search "and" by default

[Jack Eapen C]

Hi all,

I started this discussion. I don't know where it is heading for now.. :)
As a layman, I wonder why such a robust software like mediawiki doesn't
provide some nice search features!
It boasts of many other features.....

Even any simple php-MySQL application provide some kind of advanced
search features (without Lucene or similar stuff) like search in title
or full-text, search for all the words (AND) or any of the words (OR) or
exact phrase, etc. 

I don't know what prevents developers from providing these features..
Could someone explain please?

Regards,
 
Jack
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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Michael
Daly
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 12:30 AM
To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Making search "and" by default

Domas Mituzas wrote:

> They were experimenting with that lately. Thats how searching for 
> 'domas' ended up with DOMA on top ;)

I recently searched on "Johann..." and google kept hitting "John..." and
other language equivalents.  Google's searching can be annoyingly
non-specific  at times.  In any "advanced search" I'd like to tell it to
find/not find plurals or singulars, other languages etc.  Google even
modifies the search parameters for quoted (i.e. exact text) terms.

Mike




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