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Nuke Wiz
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11/15/2006 2:13 PM
In general, I was wondering if somone (Scott?) can give me a quick brief on how searching is performed in News Articles. I have a knowledge base that I know pretty well - I entered almost all of the articles. I aslo know how it searches - I've done some work on the Snitz search utility that was used for my old KB... DNN SEARCH: The DNN search is scarying me a bit. When I type "DeBuzz Bug", I get a group of articles. The top item - marked with the highest relevancy - does not have the word bug in it at all. There are 3 articles that have "DeBuzz" and "bug" in it. They end up as 3, 4 and 6 items in the list. The items listed above them only has "DeBuzz" listed. (I did re-index the site, and have no max/min set.) Searching "bug" returned nothing. That's a problem. I'm looking into this at DNN but... the question is, what do you present to the core search? The Summary? The Article? What tables fields get searched? Do you expose a view or stored procedure that is consumed by the core search? News Article Search: DeBuzz returns 9 articles - this looks good! Bug returns 10 articles - also looks good! DeBuzz Bug returns ZERO articles. Hmmm... this is not good. I'm only using the keyword search - what fields/tables does this search in? Cheers!

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Nuke Master
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11/15/2006 3:16 PM
It search's title, description and page details. It doesn't split the keywords up, which is why DeBuzz Bug probably doens't return any links.

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Nuke Wiz
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11/16/2006 5:10 AM
You mean all words in the search field are treated as a "quoted phrase"?

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11/16/2006 6:06 AM
Posted By rporetti on 11/16/2006 5:10 AM You mean all words in the search field are treated as a "quoted phrase"? Yes, not ideal, so it should be changed.

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Nuke Wiz
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11/16/2006 7:18 AM
Right... web-site users will not realize this and if they type two words in, there is a high-probablity, that they will render search "useless". Unless they are lucky! ;-) Cheers!

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11/16/2006 1:03 PM
Just a further comment. I was comparing DNN seaches as well, and started having problems with short word searches. (3-4 characters long. Anyone using DNN 4.3.5 should probably know about this problem. See here: Gemini DNN Bug-Base: Search Does Not Find Anything 3 Characters Long Cheers!

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11/16/2006 4:43 PM
Yes, I will be changing how it works to split the words up. Thanks for posting the link, I wasn't aware of that issue.

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