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10. On entering two words and searching, it returns results that will have one or both the words. Searching for 'angelina humanist' - either without or with the single quotes - returns results that have one word or the other or both. But use double quotes and you get AND results - only pages that have both the words. This is good so far. But what do you do if you want to search for a phrase with exact order of words? | 10. On entering two words and searching, it returns results that will have one or both the words. Searching for 'angelina humanist' - either without or with the single quotes - returns results that have one word or the other or both. But use double quotes and you get AND results - only pages that have both the words. This is good so far. But what do you do if you want to search for a phrase with exact order of words? | ||
Eg: A search for a line from the Ulysses poem "Of all the western stars, until I die" (using double quotes) Does not return the Ulysses (poem) article in the first page. | Eg: A search for a line from the Ulysses poem "Of all the western stars, until I die" (using double quotes) Does not return the Ulysses (poem) article in the first page. | ||
: Position of words are not stored in the search index to reduce the disk usage. For this reason this is not possible to make search with exact match (using double quotes). Per default if you type many words, the OR operand is between them... the ranking algorithm makes the rest. [[User:Kelson|Kelson]] 12:05, 3 April 2011 (UTC) | |||
11. It may be nice if the text typed in the search bar stayed there instead of being wiped out, if in case we want to go back up and tweak it. Like, in Firefox, what I've typed in search bar stays there. | 11. It may be nice if the text typed in the search bar stayed there instead of being wiped out, if in case we want to go back up and tweak it. Like, in Firefox, what I've typed in search bar stays there. | ||