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Ugh, well, yes, this would be nice. But, sadly, probably more work than feasible in my Z39.50 parts of the search. But, yes, if it was a more "important" project these would be the ideals. The "fuzzy" search is still a possibility I guess (with ispell). The ranking would be the expensive part. -Ross. Jason Etheridge wrote: > Ross Singer wrote: > >> What do you think is more appropriate (and intuitive) for a search >> engine if the user gives no boolean, "and" or "or"? > > > As a user, I'd expect for both to happen. But the hits that include all > my search terms should be more relevant and show up first. In fact, > what I'd want would be even more fun for the programmer. > > Set of hits: > 1) Exact phrase matches listed first > 2) Boolean AND'ed matches second > 3) Fuzzy/misspelled exact/AND'ed matches third > 4) Boolean OR'ed matches fourth > 5) Fuzzy/misspelled OR'ed matches fifth > > Maybe stop at any point if you have more than enough hits. > > I'd also want spelling correction suggestions if relevant and maybe > related or authoritative subject terms/authors in a sidebar. > > As someone other than a user, I think their should be some metric for > how "successful" a user is in finding what they want, and the ability to > somehow manually tweak the search results for any given set of search > terms so that in the future those terms will be more successful. > > Fun stuff, eh? :D > > But if the choice is just between AND and OR, I'd pick AND. > > -- Jason > http://open-ils.org/ >