[TYPO3-dam] Search String - not able to use more than one search word?

[Jigal van Hemert | alterNET internet BV]

In my opinion, searching should in general not be a feature of an extension
itself.
The reason is very simple: these days with big search engines like Google,
Yahoo!, Livesearch, etc. people expect these functionalities in all search
forms on every website. The problem is that it is not easy to build these
features and to present relevant search results.
Searching should be done by specialized algorithms/extensions/engines.
An extension should only facilitate easy searching/indexing by these
specialized programs. Maybe it would be nice to provide configuration for
the usual search extensions in TYPO3? (either in files or as part of the
documentation)

This would also help the integration in the general search on a website;
more and more customers ask to include all kinds of data in the search
results.

2008/12/16 Martin Holtz <typo3ng_2008 at martinholtz.de>

> Hi,
>
> is it correct, that it is not possible to search for more than one
> search word?
>
> What would you say for an syntax like:
>
> 1) OR: one of them
> searchword1 searchword2
>
> 2) AND: both searchwords
> searchword1 +searchword2
>
> 3) NOT: must not have searchword2
> searchword1 -searchword2
>
> 4) Combined:
> searchword1 searchword2 +searchword3 -searchword4 searchword5
>
> would lead to
> (searchword1 OR searchword2 or searchword5)
> AND searchword3 AND NOT searchword4
>
> ?
>
> I would like to hear your thoughts about that in general.
>
>
> thanks,
> martin
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>

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Met vriendelijke groet, kind regards,

Jigal van Hemert.