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Search yields "No Results" for phrases in quotes
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| KMcDermott 2005-05-23, 5:53 pm |
| Windows 2000 Advanced Server
FPSE 5.0.2.4330
From my site's search field (FP2002 > insert > web component > web search >
current web):
if I search by 2 words <b>unemployment benefits</b> i get 250 results.
if I search by 2 quoted words <b>"unemployment benefits"</b> i get No Results.
The search page itself contains the phrase -in quotes - "unemployment
benefits" as an example, so at least that page should theoretically show up,
I would think.
Where do I start looking?
I've been looking into this a little further... is it that FrontPage just
doesn't know how to handle the quotes? Initially, I had surmised that the
search bot thought that if I entered "unemployment benefits" that it would
give me a page that contained the entire phrase, including the quotes.
No such luck.
Based on the fact that the search page itself
(http://www.rrb.gov/searchrrb.html) contains the word "unemployment"
actually including the quotation marks, thought it would be a good example.
Unemployment - 248 pages returned
"Unemployment" - 248 pages returned
Unemployment<space> - 248 pages returned
"Unemployment " - 0 pages returned
So it seems that the quotes are disregarded until a space is included
between them.
unemployment and benefits - 248 pages returned
"unemployment benefits" - 0 pages returned
'unemployment benefits' - 0 pages returned
(unemployment benefits) - 248 pages returned
Soooooooooooo...
how exactly DO you search a FP web by a string of consecutive words??
Very Frustrating...
>Kevin
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| Mark Fitzpatrick 2005-05-23, 5:53 pm |
| The FP WAIS search engine is, basically, a very simple engine. It deals more
with boolean combinations of words and doesn't really handle exact phrases.
The only way around this is to have FP send the searches to use the Indexing
Services present in Win 2000. A lot of Admins disable Indexing Services
though because of some of the attacks there used to be possible against it.
The Indexing Services engine is much more robust and can handle queries much
better and can even be queried through custom search pages using Active
Server Pages.
Hope this helps,
Mark Fitzpatrick
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
"KMcDermott" <KMcDermott@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E025844A-28CB-42EA-B33F-E0A793533E86@microsoft.com...[vbcol=seagreen]
> Windows 2000 Advanced Server
> FPSE 5.0.2.4330
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>
> From my site's search field (FP2002 > insert > web component > web search
> current web):
>
> if I search by 2 words <b>unemployment benefits</b> i get 250 results.
>
> if I search by 2 quoted words <b>"unemployment benefits"</b> i get No
> Results.
>
> The search page itself contains the phrase -in quotes - "unemployment
> benefits" as an example, so at least that page should theoretically show
> up,
> I would think.
>
> Where do I start looking?
>
> I've been looking into this a little further... is it that FrontPage just
> doesn't know how to handle the quotes? Initially, I had surmised that the
> search bot thought that if I entered "unemployment benefits" that it would
> give me a page that contained the entire phrase, including the quotes.
>
> No such luck.
>
> Based on the fact that the search page itself
> (http://www.rrb.gov/searchrrb.html) contains the word "unemployment"
> actually including the quotation marks, thought it would be a good
> example.
>
> Unemployment - 248 pages returned
> "Unemployment" - 248 pages returned
> Unemployment<space> - 248 pages returned
> "Unemployment " - 0 pages returned
>
> So it seems that the quotes are disregarded until a space is included
> between them.
>
> unemployment and benefits - 248 pages returned
> "unemployment benefits" - 0 pages returned
> 'unemployment benefits' - 0 pages returned
> (unemployment benefits) - 248 pages returned
>
>
> Soooooooooooo...
>
> how exactly DO you search a FP web by a string of consecutive words??
>
> Very Frustrating...
>
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