Did I do that wrong? I always mess up the AND/OR human-readable form of this - it's clearer when you use +/- unary operators instead:
query: "San Francisco" "California" +("John Smith" "John Smith Manufacturing") Here the San Fran and CA clauses are optional, and the ("John Smith" OR "John Smith Manufacturing") is required. -jake On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Max Lynch <ihas...@gmail.com> wrote: > > You want a query like > > > > ("San Francisco" OR "California") AND ("John Smith" OR "John Smith > > Manufacturing") > > > > Won't his require San Francisco or California to be present? I do not > require them to be, I only require "John Smith" OR "John Smith > Manufacturing", but I want to get a bigger score if the city and state are > mentioned a long with it, so that's why I was thinking of doing different > term boostings. The most important term is the name, and then the company, > and then the city and then the state. Finding each one increases the > quality of the result for me. > > Thanks. > > -max >