Hi Peter
The "How to search" page gives you a few more options using wildcards and
boolean expressions.
I'm not sure why this works, because logic says littl* shoudl find MORE
recordes than little, but it seems to work (found 82 records):
kingfisher and littl*
You can search in just one field - e.g. Subject Line. The following search
for subject lines containing the words "Little" and "Kingfisher" found 6
records:.
+subject:little and +subject:kingfisher
Perhaps you can use a wildcard for other common words - Andrew Taylor, who has
built and maintained the archives for several years, will probably give us the
real answers on Monday!
Cheers
Russell
Russell Woodford
Birding-Aus Mailing List Administrator
"Peter Ewin" <> on Sat, 18 Feb 2006 13:50:04 +1100 wrote:
> I have just tried the new search feature in the Archives of Birding-Aus and
> have struck a problem. I am specifically looking for records of Little
> Kingfisher and am not having any luck. I have tried the following search
> formats:
> Little Kingfisher - Returns 1500 documents containing Kingfisher only (there
> are too many documents containing Little)
> "Little Kingfisher" - No documents returned (seems to be overwhelmed by
> Little)
> "Sacred Kingfisher" - 542 documents returned
> "Forest Kingfisher" - 116 documents
> "Azure Kingfisher" - 298 documents.
>
> Is there a way to find just Little Kingfisher records? Can the counter on
> Little be lifted so a return will be made? If someone has already asked this
> and a solution has been suggested I apologise. Otherwise a great resource
> will be limited by the search function.
> Cheers,
> Peter
>
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