Re: Proximity operators "before" and "after"

["Pamela A. Mofjeld" <mofjeld@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The only thought that had occurred to me was that perhaps if their ASSEARCH
wwwoption was set to 4 or 5, and completely change all failed searches that
then before and after would get truncated and work.  Pam Mofjeld

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mieko Yamaguchi" <iss053@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <innopac@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 11:32 AM
Subject: Re: Proximity operators "before" and "after"


> Is this a new feature or have we always had it without noticing?  The
> CSDirect FAQ entry about BEFORE and AFTER seems to have been added
> recently.  And why does it work differently at OhioLINK?  Any suggestion?
>
> Mieko
>
> On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Carol Gyger wrote:
>
> > I did
> > finally find a reference to these operators in an FAQ that suggests they
> > be used for a search like "hillary before clinton".  Unfortunately,
> > hillary could be in the title and clinton could be in a subject heading
> > halfway down the record.  We haven't been able to come up with
legitimate
> > uses for these operators.
> >
> > They are causing a little bit of a problem because we encourage our
> > customers to use keyword searching as their first choice.  Searches like
> > "After the fall" and "Before we were free" yield zero hits.  Enclosing
the
> > words AFTER and BEFORE in quotes will work but who would think to do
that?
> > At a minimum, we will be changing our Searching Tips to include this
> > information.
>
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