Christoph,
Same basic result:
+(cloning clone) +animal yields 1072 hits
(cloning OR clone) AND animal yields 19 hits.
(cloning clone) AND animal yields 19 hits.
Regards,
Terry
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From: "Christoph Kiehl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2003 7:41 PM
Subject: Re: Syntax Problem
> Terry Steichen wrote:
> > I have an index which, when searched with this query ("cloning clone
> > animal") produces 1103 hits. A different, more narrow query
> > ("(cloning clone) AND animal") produces only 19 hits.
>
> AFAIK the terms in your queries are by default concatenated by OR. This
> means "cloning clone animal" == "cloning OR clone OR animal".
>
> > What's puzzling to me is that if I try a different (but supposedly
> > identical) form of the more narrow query ("+(cloning clone)
> > +animal"), it produces 1103 hits rather than the 19 that I expect.
> >
> > In other words, "+(cloning clone) +animal" appears to be the
> > equivalent of "cloning OR clone OR animal" rather than "(cloning OR
> > clone) AND animal".
>
> Hm, strange. I would expect "+(cloning clone) +animal" being translated to
> "(cloning OR clone) AND animal". I just tried it here. The translation is
> done as I expected. Perhaps you could try the last query ("(cloning OR
> clone) AND animal") and compare the resultsize with the one from
"+(cloning
> clone) +animal" (even if both seem to be the same as "(cloning clone) AND
> animal" ;)?
>
> Christoph
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