yeah, that's what I thought, and obviously the umlaut [ö] gets looked at as [o]. it's like sherlock, it does not do boolean and such. best is to find a specific word which probably gets never used in any other email, never, ever, in 10 years not... :)
---marlyse -------------------------former message(s) quotes:------------------------- >bay -- 2 messages >hog -- none >hög (Swedish for "high") -- 80 > >Kind of sums up... > >I guess I'm too used to search by "exact phrase" and Boolean searches. > >An idea, perhaps, for the future...? > >/Max G > > >At 2003-05-26, 14:12 CET, Marlyse Comte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>how many of the remaining 82 messages contained the word "hog" or "bay" ? >> >>---marlyse >> >>------------------------original message(s) follows------------------------ >> >>>I through away the index folder, run "Rebuild Indexes..." and tried a >>>search for "Hog Bay" -- a new correspondance I've had with Hog Bay >>>Software. So I know for sure I've exactly 11 messages back and forth >>>containing Hog Bay. >>> >>>Search result for "hog bay" = 93 hits >>>Search result for "hog AND bay" = 95 hits >>> >>>NO other than the eleven messages have the phrase "hog bay". The only >>>credit to the search function is it did give the 11 messages the highest >>>relevance score. >>> >>>Max Gossell

