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Why does the TJC search for "it's OR its" return zero results?

asked 2015-04-26 09:17:11 +0300

rdmo gravatar image

updated 2015-04-27 10:15:31 +0300

I'd like to be able to find and correct some language errors. This may help mitigate the jarring effect of these mistakes on native and near-native forum users reading the simple, avoidable language mistakes in otherwise important questions and answers. I want to improve the signal:noise ratio here.

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Is there a way to explicitly disallow this engine behaviour when, on occasion, it is unwanted?

rdmo ( 2015-04-26 09:29:02 +0300 )edit

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answered 2015-04-26 09:22:44 +0300

lakutalo gravatar image

updated 2015-04-26 23:31:38 +0300

Usually search engines ignore too frequently used words, not to bloat results. Try is and have, you will not get any results either.

I had a glimpse at askbot's documentation, but regrettably I could not find the answer. So since you asked about an option specifically concerning its :) interface you could also create an upstream request there (http://askbot.org/en/questions/).

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So I suppose it's getting in its own way, saying zero (untruthfully) instead of too many results to display, search with more terms.

rdmo ( 2015-04-27 06:42:51 +0300 )edit

About your comment above, it's intended to test its search result?

Giacomo Di Giacomo ( 2015-04-27 12:44:06 +0300 )edit

It would be useful, given a search result of thousands to, say, show the first 10 results instead of none at all, and with a notification that there are more but the large result is impossible to show.

Meanwhile though partnering with Google to do this might be plain daft (even though they'll have indexed this trove/hairball of phone-owner feedback) there's always DuckDuckGo.

rdmo ( 2015-04-27 15:29:20 +0300 )edit
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