The information in this article applies to:
- Article/Feed Seach
- Keyword Search Smart Feed
SUMMARY
The NewsGator Online search function allows a number of advanced features, including exact phrase and boolean searches.
- Exact Phrase - Quotes can be used to search for an exact phrase.
- "pressure cooker" - will return results only where the words appear adjacent to each other in the order specified in the search.
- pressure cooker - will be interpreted as "pressure" AND "cooker". The search will return results that contain both words, regardless of where they appear in the document.
- Boolean Searches - AND, OR and NOT arguments can be used to creates more specific searches.
- AND - In a multi-word search the default argument is AND. pressure AND cooker is treated the same as pressure cooker as noted previously.
- OR - pressure OR cooker will return search result containing either word, or both.
- NOT - pressure NOT cooker will return only results that contain the word pressure and do not contain the word cooker.
CAVEAT
Boolean searches are much slower than single word or exact phrase searches and can sometimes result in a timeout. This is compounded with each added argument.
As an example "how to use a pressure cooker" will be exponentially faster than how to use a pressure cooker. This is because the second search is treated as how AND to AND use AND a AND pressure AND cooker. The system must do an individual search for each word and then combine the results.
