On Tuesday 12 October 2004 17:22, Doug Cutting wrote:Which is worse: a person who searches for Photokopie~ in a 1000 document collection does not find documents containing Fotokopie; or a person who searches for Photokopie~ in a 1M document collection doesn't find anything because it takes too long. I think some relevant results are better than none.
I disagree, as the user who doesn't get the "Fotokopie" matches will not understand what's going on. He will assume that there are no such documents, which is wrong.
I disagree. For someone to assume that they would need a detailed understanding of how "~" works. Such a person would likely also know whether initial characters are considered in the operation of "~". Most users who use "~" would probably use it when they're uncertain of spelling, without a detailed understanding of how it works, and, most of the time, it will help them.
If there's a timeout the user will at least notice something is wrong. Besides that, it's the developers responsibility to get things fast enough.
We're talking about the appropriate default. Defaults are used by unsophisticated developers. A system deployed by an unsophisticated developer should not suffer from erratic timeouts. Users using the standard query syntax should enjoy a reasonable experience on multi-million document collections without having to tweak things.
Doug
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