[Zope-dev] Comment on CVS change

Michael R. Bernstein webmaven@lvcm.com
Wed, 21 Mar 2001 17:09:55 -0800


Casey Duncan wrote:
> 
> I rarely find myself using any explicit boolean operators when I use
> Google. And even when it returns 657,340,269 pages, the ones I wanted
> tend to be in the top 30. I think "OR" searching is fine if the result
> scoring can be done intelligently somehow.

It's pretty simple. The default operator should continue to
be 'OR', but the result sorting should give precedence to
results that satisfy the 'AND' condition.

No, I don't know hoe to get it to do this. Didn't Catalog
results used to have a 'score' attribute for something like
this?

HTH,

Michael Bernstein.