Can you accept the request for the colon character too? I may use the prefix $IN for Indian stocks and would like to retrieve only the updates containing the term $IN:REL for example? Does that make sense?
On Feb 23, 3:39 am, Matt Sanford <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Requests for this have come up before so I opened a ticket for > the person working on our tokenizer to add this. I'm not sure when > he'll get to it but it's on the road map now. One bit of forewarning: > if you try to query for every ticker symbol every five minutes you're > building something unscalable and you can expect to hit the rate > limit. Not that I'm sure this is what people have in mind but I > thought I'd put this out there ahead of time just in case. > > — Matt > > On Feb 22, 2009, at 02:17 AM, Karthik Murugan wrote: > > > No, they show status updates from unrelated profiles too. I guess, > > they are indexing updates containing stock names and filtering out > > posts that don't have a dollar sign before the stock name > > > On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Chad Etzel <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > My SWAG is that they are just parsing their follower/friend stream > > themselves and highlighting tokens beginning with $. > > > -Chad > > > On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Karthik <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I'm looking for a similar feature too. I wonder > > > howhttp://stocktwits.com/streams/all > > > could show statuses containing $ > > > > On Feb 21, 10:35 pm, Chad Etzel <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> Yes, that's correct. Add $ as a token modifier, if you will. > > >> -Chad > > > >> On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Nick Arnett > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> > On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 6:46 PM, Chad Etzel > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> >> Sorry I must have been unclear. > > > >> >> I don't want the $ by itself, I want it to be a searchable > > character > > >> >> in conjunction with other strings, so I want to search for > > "$AAPL" or > > >> >> "$C" much like # is with hashtags. > > > >> > FYI, in search engine language this means is that you want > > words to be > > >> > tokenized with and without the $ (or other) similar characters. > > >> > Right now, it sounds like $AAPL is tokenized as "AAPL". If I > > understand > > >> > correctly, you'd want the search engine to also add the token > > "$AAPL". > > >> > NIck
