[ARC5] Question about finding our treasures on eBay...

[J. Forster]

Yes, the singular/plural thing is very brain damaged, but it does not
address the issue raised in my post, namely how can adding a restriction
to a search string increase the number of hits.

Best,

-John

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> On 8 Aug 2013 at 13:02, J. Forster wrote:
>
>> Why?
>>
>> My 2nd string is intended to return all capacitors, except ceramic.
>>
>> capacitor -ceramic  is supposed to mean "capacitor AND NOT ceramic"
>>
>> It gets interpreted as something like "capacitors OR ceramic".
>>
>> The way the eBay strings should be parsed is:
>>
>> Word1 Word2    =  Word1 AND Word2
>> Word1 -Word2   =  Word1 AND NOT Word2
>> (Word1,Word2)  =  Word1 OR Word2
>
> Well, perhaps the problem is that Evil-bays search function views -ceramic
> and -ceramics as two different search criteria.
>
> In other words, it doesn't recognize "ceramic" as "polyCERAMICs" as any
> normal search engine should. Furthermore, it sometimes decides there is a
> difference between capitalized words and lower-case words...or letters.
>
> If you want to search for a plural word in an ad, you have to specify
> plural.
> Singular won't do it. And it won't recognize wild cards either.
>
> It is crap.
>
> Ken W7EKB
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