Hi Andrew, Andrew Coppin wrote:
In general, I find *most* search functions to be fairly unhelpful. Google is the shining exception to this rule; it almost always seems to figure out what you're after.
I guess doing text searching is just a fundamentally difficult problem, and the guys at Google have spent a hell of a long time on it.
text searching is a well-known problem. ranking search results by relevance is the key to google's success. read the paper about google to learn more: Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page, "The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine" in: Proceedings of the 7th International WWW Conference, 1998, Brisbane http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/papers/google.pdf Tillmann