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Boolean search functions disabled? #147

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
As a user I *might* want Boolean search logic disabled, or have the option to 
do so. That is, if it's 
presently active -- I can't really tell. But a search for the band Q And Not U 
just about gave the thing 
a heart attack, and I'm guessing it's the unorthodox name. 

Thoughts? Talk me out of it? Correct me? Just thought I'd mention it.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by billyk...@gmail.com on 28 May 2010 at 12:05

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
We do not support boolean searching using terms such as "and" and "not." (The 
way search works: all terms are ANDed, you can use prefix matching as in Blah*, 
and any term that starts with a minus sign is NOTed.) I tried this search and 
it works in the sense that it returns results, some of which are "Q and Not U." 
Since one and two letter words are skipped and the word "and" is skipped, the 
search is effectively on "Not" resulting on a lot of matches. It worked for me, 
but the large number of matches may have caused a timeout in your case. There's 
not too much we can do about this at the moment since search does not support 
paging. Because our search routines combine the results on multiple queries, 
paging would require something like what is discussed in Issue 144.

Original comment by jawax...@gmail.com on 30 Aug 2010 at 12:30

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Closing this issue.

Original comment by jawax...@gmail.com on 5 May 2011 at 7:08