[Search-l] advanced search

Jimmy Wales jwales at wikia.com
Mon Jun 30 12:28:43 UTC 2008


Oooh, I agree.  We need an "advanced search" screen pronto, and an 
explanation of advanced syntax.

� wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> First of all, I must say that I recently go back to search wikia to test 
> the relevance of its results after a few months. Well, I must say that 
> I'm quite impressed by the results. That's really good ! Ok it's still 
> suffer on very recent topics and google beat it, but IMHO for stable 
> thema, the results are really good.
> 
> I really like the idea that I can interact directly with the results and 
> for 2/3 queries, I actually saw the change when I launch (accidentally) 
> the same query some after some days. I don't really point out the 
> benefit of the social network aspect but it might be useful later.
> 
> Now, I have a simple basic question, I don't think this is the right 
> place to post this question, but can't find a better one. So where is 
> tha advanced search part where I can use specific query syntax (site or 
> domain restriction is one of my favourite) ? Do you process the query in 
> a specila way or is the lucene syntax available ?
> 
> Hope that someone has the answer.
> 
> cheers
> 
> -- 
> G�rard Dupont
> Information Processing Competence Center (IPCC) - EADS DS
> http://weblab-project.org
> 
> Perception & Machine Learning team - LITIS Laboratory
> 
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