On Tue 23 Sep 2003, Earle Martin openguides@downlode.org wrote:
I've been wanting this for quite a while. However, your point about yet another syntax is why I mentioned Google style in the conversation - Google lets you do advanced queries from the generic box, but gives you an advanced search page as well. I'd like this format for search terms (where metadata1 and metadata2 are two arbitrary metadata types like locale and category):
term1 [metadata1]:term2 [metadata2]:"term3 term4"
Ah, yes, so like google you could search either by typing in the individual boxes or by shortcutting to the syntax above.
However, since the new OG release "searches for your terms not only in the titles and bodies of the nodes, but also in the locales and categories", I guess that makes this redundant.
I think the "one box" simple search approach is quite adequate at the moment - does anyone have any evidence otherwise? ie, have you found anomalous search results on any of the openguides installs that you believe a more complicated search syntax would fix?
Regarding search more generally, I think that words typed into the search box should default to an "AND" search, which I don't believe they do at the moment.
Kake