On 3/27/07 10:57 AM, "Mike Klaas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I agree with your point above, but I fear "AND: bad! OR: good!" > becoming dogma--often AND+spellcheck is the better option. AND-with-spell-suggestion is better, but the spelling suggestion needs to be really, really good. That is really hard, while setting "OR" is really easy. Google uses AND, but they have way more data (and engineers) for building good spelling suggestions, and they have a desperate need to cut down the number of servers involved in a query. The AND default probably saves them thousands of servers. > A more nuanced answer would be to finesse the MM parameter so shorter > multi-word queries behave as AND, and longer queries allow more > flexibility (this could probably be achieved by using a high > percentage setting, but I'd have to double check how the rounding is > done). I disabled MM. It was giving me too many no-hits on real user queries. I think it makes the engine somewhat mysterious to users. wunder
