Re: constructing smaller phrase queries given a multi-word query

2006-10-19 Thread Chris Hostetter
: eg. "rowling goblet of fire" - need to match rowling in 1 field & : "goblet of fire in another : "hilary duff most wanted" - need to match "hilary duff" in 1 field & : "most wanted" in another : > Why not just index those separate fields into the yet a third field and : > search there? : > : >

Re: constructing smaller phrase queries given a multi-word query

2006-10-19 Thread Mekin Maheshwari
On 10/19/06, Erick Erickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What is the use case you're trying to solve? It doesn't make sense to me that you want to take a query from a user and split it over fields under the covers. Well I am planning on doing exactly that, given that we have seen some amount of u

Re: constructing smaller phrase queries given a multi-word query

2006-10-19 Thread Erick Erickson
What is the use case you're trying to solve? It doesn't make sense to me that you want to take a query from a user and split it over fields under the covers. Why not just index those separate fields into the yet a third field and search there? Or why not just put it all into one field in the fir

Re: constructing smaller phrase queries given a multi-word query

2006-10-18 Thread Mekin Maheshwari
Resending, with the hope that the search gurus missed this. Would really appreciate any advise on this. Would not want to reinvent the wheel & I am sure this is something that would have been done. Thanks, mek On 10/16/06, Mek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Has anyone dealt with the problem of con

constructing smaller phrase queries given a multi-word query

2006-10-15 Thread Mek
Has anyone dealt with the problem of constructing sub-queries given a multi-word query ? Here is an example to illustrate what I mean: user queries for -> A B C D right now I change that query to "A B C D" A B C D to give phrase matches higher weightage. What might happen though, is that the us