I use Fulcrum and it certainly can search word strings. You need a search
engine which can do boolean searches, to not only search specific word
strings but one that can also do proximity searches.

Arlene Bronstein

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>My understanding of the Verity and Fulcrum search engines is that they both
>support searching of word strings in the order entered.
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>Susan Tyrrell
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Marc Wolfe [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
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>At 11:42 AM 10/12/2000 -0700, you wrote:
>>Good Morning All,
>>
>>I've completed almost ½ of a project to make indices of our meeting minutes
>of our Board of Higher Education available on our web site for research
>purposes.  At this stage of the game, I find that our search engine is
>incapable of finding word strings (2-4 words used as a key phrase) with any
>degree of accuracy or consistency.  In other words, it will return documents
>with the 2-4 words in the document, but not necessarily in the order you
>need to see them in, rendering this finding aid much less useful and
>frustrating for users.
>>
>>The question:  Is this common in web search engines, or do we just have a
>turkey?  Seems to me that if a search engine can't find a string of a few
>words in the order you're looking for them, it's not a good search engine.
>Our "web development solution team" doesn't seem to think it's important.  I
>would think our site visitors might have a different take.  Any ideas or
>suggestions to get this fixed?
>
>What engine are you using?  Most have some degree of reliability in finding
>strings, provided the search parameters are parsed as a string.  This is not
>always the
>case with the primary search page, which finds all documents containing the
>individual words.
>
>Marc
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