Bug: Searching for numbers not acting like it should

Azmeen · 01-26-2004, 04:29 AM

Hi LQ Gods (esp. jeremy),

I have a feeling that the search feature doesn't handle numbers very well. I was searching for a problem I have with USB storage in kernel 2.6.1.

However, the search results are mostly irrelevant, primarily due to non-parsing of the 2.6.1 bit of my search query.

I hope that this description is clear enough. However, feel free to ask me to describe it differently and/or give examples.

Skyline · 01-26-2004, 05:33 AM

........ to add to that:

++

in c++

for example (mentioned about a month ago) - only noticed it when looking for an old "c++" post.

jeremy · 01-26-2004, 08:20 AM

The search depends on MySQL's fulltext, so some non-alpha characters are considered stopwords. I am looking into improving this to be able to search from words like "2.6.1" and "c++".

--jeremy

Azmeen · 01-26-2004, 08:51 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by jeremy
The search depends on MySQL's fulltext, so some non-alpha characters are considered stopwords. I am looking into improving this to be able to search from words like "2.6.1" and "c++".

--jeremy

Cool, I did try putting the numbers in quotes earlier, but it yielded the same set of results.

Thanks in advance, and be sure to give us a shoutout when you've implemented the improvements