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

[jian chen]

Hi, Jack,

Unfortunately, search is not an easy thing to do it right. MySQL has some
support for full text search, but it is not perfect yet. I guess it just
needs more time for MySQL to be mature on search feature.

Cheers,

JIan


On 10/15/07, Jack Eapen C <jackec at suntecgroup.com> wrote:
>
>
> 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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> 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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