Erik Curiel wrote: > Leahy: So, you're telling me that the FBI does not currently have the > capacity to search all its computers for the phrase "aviation school"? > > FBI chick: That's correct. We could search for the single word > "aviation" or the single word "school" but not for the entire phrase > "aviation school". > > I'm not sure whether I should be more pleased or more worried at the fact > that the FBI's computers are being run by morons. Have these people never > heard of grep?
A grep of their entire database would likely take *forever*, she was likely referring to indexed searches. However, it's generally quite efficient to pick the least commonly occuring of the two words and do a linear search through the indexed result of that. This is what google does, and it works fine. http://www.google.com/search?q=aviation+school -Bram _______________________________________________ Bits mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sugoi.org/mailman/listinfo/bits
