webinator 2.1 too eager to please?

[Thunderstone]

Hi,
I just got a complaint from a research librarian.

She came to the webinator page on our site
http://www.demographics.com/search

And entered
Find: +construction +vehicle
Proximity: sentence
Word forms: exact

and got a number of hits -- the very first of which
contained "construction" but did not have "vehicle"
anywhere on the page, let alone in the same sentence with
"construction".

I had made some changes to the search script, so I tried
with a fresh copy of the "stock" script dl'ed from
thunderstone.com. Same results.

How can I persuade Webinator to be a bit more
discriminating?




Wade Leftwich <wade@demographics.com>
American Demographics / Marketing Tools, a division of Cowles Business Media
tel 607-273-6343 fax 607-273-3196 http://www.demographics.com/

[Thunderstone]

You've changed the search sql for "exactmatch" in your script to use likep
(the ranker) instead of like . Change it back to like.

When you tried the default script, you probably got the message:
No documents matched your query exactly, so I tried a fuzzy search for you.