"Kay, Michael" <Michael.Kay@softwareag.com> writes: >> I think that the user really wishes to do phrase search. >> >> All the above specifications are just (poor) approximations on that >> goal. I don't think that the user wishes to think about the word >> order or the number of intervening stopwords that are allowed. > > I agree with you, certainly as far as the average end user is > concerned. But the "power users", professional librarians and the > like, seem to want this fine-grained control. Yes. I think (hope) I said elsewhere in that message that I don't want to take these capabilities out, just like wildcards are still present even though the FTS extensions allow stemming. -- The passive voice should never be used.Received on Monday, 24 March 2003 06:22:53 GMT
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