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

[jian chen]

MySQL is just a relational database. Not really designed to be a search
engine. It will take time for them or any other database vendors to catch up
with the search front.

In the meantime, I can see people feel installing a search engine is a lot
of work. So, I guess hosted service could be another option. I am looking
into providing hosted site search nowadays.

Cheers,

Jian

On 10/16/07, Dave Sigafoos <davesigafoos at sanmar.com> wrote:
>
> So MySql has to mature in order to get an OR selection?
>
> DSig
> David Tod Sigafoos | SANMAR Corporation
> PICK Guy
>
>
>
> -----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
> To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
> 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
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org
> > [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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