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

[jian chen]

To address the concern of shared hosts, I can provide a hosted search
service for less than 5$ per month. If anyone is interested, let me know.

Cheers,

Jian

On 10/15/07, Brion Vibber <brion at wikimedia.org> wrote:
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> Platonides wrote:
> > Default mediawiki search is really bad. You should use a search
> > extension, like Lucene.
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> Since those are difficult to set up at the best of times and impossible
> for most shared hosts, it might help if you instead listed out the
> things that are "really bad" about it so they can be fixed for the
> default install.
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> Offhand, the split between title and text searches is a bit odd, but the
> only really "bad" thing is that MySQL's search engine by default
> excludes short and common words.
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> Can you think of any other problems?
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> - -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)
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