Search For A Post

[Guesty]

When using the 'search for a post' facility, is there a way of searching for a sentence or specific group of words...? For example, if i search for 'Interest rate', what i actually get are posts with the words interest and/or rate but not only 'interest rate' together. What this entails is trawling through a copious amount of posts which have no relevance to my initial search, in this instance, 202 to be exact!

Any suggestions or am i missing something ?

 

[Sharky]

Hi Guesty,

I'm afraid not. You'd certainly think it shouldn't be difficult to do, but the actual mechanics of searching across every post on T2W requires a fair bit of work.

The reason you're search is so quick is because the system catalogues every word (over 3 chars). This amounts to over 100,000 words. The index used to link a word with a post amounts to over 1,200,000 entries.

Now in order to catalogue multiple words together is an enormous task, since once word could be grouped with any other word - potentially adding 100,000 x 100,000 x 2 (because a word could be the first one or second) that's 20,000,000,000 (of course in reality the breadth of combinations is limited by gramatical and language constraints).

Anyway, I think you get the idea!

 

[Guesty]

Thankyou for your immediate response and now i understand.

Cheers.

 

[dsmodi]

hmmm... very interesting! Sso any idea's how google does it so quickly as it has zillions of sites te size of t2w or bigger....
i've always wondered how they do it....

 

[ChartMan]

Put a + sign between the two words ?