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

[Dave Sigafoos]

So MySql has to mature in order to get an OR selection?

DSig
David Tod Sigafoos | SANMAR Corporation
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-----Original Message-----
From: mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org
[mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of jian chen
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 0:13
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Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Making search "and" by default

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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> [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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