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Re: status of search performance - why do we use | not & ?

 

On 24 July 2010 12:25, Martin Pool <mbp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 24 July 2010 09:47, Bryce Harrington <bryce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Sort of along these lines, when doing advanced search if you specify a
>> set of tags to search on, by default it selects combinator 'Any', where
>> as if it defaulted to 'All' it would return a smaller set.
>>
>> In addition, as a user that comes closer to my expectations of what the
>> default behavior would be.
>
> +10
>
> Out of hundreds of searches I don't think I've ever wanted 'or', and a
> fairly popular bug on lp suggests others feel the same.   To me the
> obvious next step is to just match only the bugs containing words that
> were actually requested.  If there's a typo or a slightly incorrect
> search, just ignoring that term is of questionable benefit.

ps, this would be a great place to try out feature flags - give it to
some users and see what they think.


-- 
Martin



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