[glg2] Re: GG2 Search Bug

Tomi Häsä wrote:
> I was looking for information about previous versions of Google Talk
> from the official Google Talk group, and found out searching for
> ["Google Talk" "1.0.0."] yields no results:
>
> " Your search - "Google Talk" "1.0.0." - did not match any documents. "
> http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Talk-Help-Discuss/search?group=Google-Talk-Help-Discuss&q=%22Google+Talk%22+%221.0.0.%22&qt_g=1
>
> but searching for ["Google Talk" "1.0."] does:
>
> " 46 results for "Google Talk" "1.0." "
> http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Talk-Help-Discuss/search?group=Google-Talk-Help-Discuss&q=%22Google+Talk%22+%221.0.%22&qt_g=1

Google doesn't support wildcards (e.g., the way that Deja used to).
I don't think you can search for partial strings (even stems).
Either is what you really need to find what you're looking for.

I further think that Google often ignores punctuation
and can find things in a post's headers.
Hence, I think it's possible that you are actually finding some
pages which contain the two strings "Google" and "Talk"
separated by one character and 1 and 0 separated by one character.

E.g. here is the first hit from your second search, in its original
form:

http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Talk-Help-Discuss/msg/0338bd518b6966b8?dmode=source

Notice for example, that it contains "MIME-Version: 1.0" which could
be satisfying
the revised second term.

Robert Aldwinckle
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