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Advanced PBwiki Search
Make your PBwiki search more effective and more efficient by using search shortcuts.
1) To find pages that contain "brown" but not "cow"
SEARCH: brown -cow
2) To located the exact phrase 'Bay to Breakers'
SEARCH: "Bay to Breakers"
3) Any of the words 'yellow', 'green', or 'blue':
SEARCH: yellow green blue
Also, search results are sorted by weight, which means that a page with a lot of the mention of the keyword will show up at the top of the list.
1) To find pages that contain "brown" but not "cow"
SEARCH: brown -cow
2) To located the exact phrase 'Bay to Breakers'
SEARCH: "Bay to Breakers"
3) Any of the words 'yellow', 'green', or 'blue':
SEARCH: yellow green blue
Also, search results are sorted by weight, which means that a page with a lot of the mention of the keyword will show up at the top of the list.
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Inappropriate?Also, search now searches uploaded filenames properly, scores results by the number of matches and sorts their display accordingly, and you can "force" a keyword to be included with +term, so searching for hot +sauce will find all pages that contain sauce and preferentially also contain hot. No pages returned will not contain sauce.
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Inappropriate?I search my wiki for +sipp +cater and I get what I expect, if I do +sipp +cater +butter, which i think should return no results, I get the equivalent of sipp cater butter, i.e. an or, not an and. I think this is what is going wrong.
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Inappropriate?Hi Jac,
I'm not sure I followed David's explanation. I'll see if I can get a follow up.
If you think of the + symbol as meaning "OR". In that case it makes sense.
From a helpful seach HOW-TO:
Boolean AND means that all the terms you specify must appear in the documents, i.e., "heart" AND "attack." You might use this if you wanted to exclude common hits that would be irrelevant to your query.
Boolean OR means that at least one of the terms you specify must appear in the documents, i.e., bronchitis, acute OR chronic. You might use this if you didn't want to rule out too much.
From: http://www.monash.com/spidap4.html
If you need to know more about how our search works, I can try to get one of our Tier2 people in here.
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Inappropriate?Hi Jac,
Did some digging and asked David. Your expectation that there should be no results returned for a bad "+" search is correct.
I did some testing with terms like "help +pbwiki" and had plenty of results. When I used a search like "help +green +ham" it came back with no results.
So, it is a true Booliean AND function as described above. If you are getting unexpected results, it's likely seeing something you can't find quickly yourself.
I hope this helps.
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