[Wikipedia-l] Incorrect search results

[Brion VIBBER]

Imran Ghory wrote:
> Could someone explain why searching for,
> 
> George Robert Aberigh-Mackay
> 
> results in articles without that name in it ?

Somehow "Aberigh-Mackay" matches all instances of "Mackay", whether an 
"Aberigh-" is present or not.

This seems to crop up with other hyphenated searches too; try 
"Indo-European" and you'll get some results that contain "European" but 
no trace of "Indo".

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)