Received from Max Gossell on 26/5/03 at 8:02 pm >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.
I also tested the new improved search indexing with a completely random search; not having any inspired ideas as to what to use as a search criteria, I simply typed "total carnage" (without the quotes) to see what would be returned, if anything. PM returned 3 messages. None of them contained the word "total" and none of them contained the word "carnage". Conclusion: PM's search function is still useless in the extreme because I will never be certain that it has found all of the matching messages, and in order to find those matching messages I will normally have to wade through many results that do not match any of my search terms. I'm getting really bored with this crappy search function. I have a suggestion though: CTM make it work. That would be good. Rick ----------- G4/500 MHz (DP) :: OS 10.2.6 :: PM 4.1.3 :: 3 pane mode :: 768 MB RAM <www.sharkattack.co.uk>
