It was me actually. I wondered why the thread was getting continually bumped, so I had a look.
From what I could gather from the thread...
You instructed a new member in how to use the search function. New member camerokid didn't like your tone and flamed you. Macleod tried to give you simple advice in how to refine your searches. Grouping the terms together rather than searching for both single terms in the one search, similar as using the + symbol in google searches. You were reluctant to take the advice on board and seemed rather insulted by it. TBH I couldn't understand what you wanted to argue about. It was even said that the search and advance search seem more buggy than the general function, so could thus show different results anyway.
What made me laugh was the asking to post proof to justify the success of search methods. The fact is everything comes with experience of use...'The proof is in the pudding' as to say.
Remember it's not a personal argument, it's only over the search function. So, arguing about it only serves as a time waste for everyone involved. You still want to continue with it tho, just as I thought.
I didn't want to post up my views, but you asked. Now, if you post back again when nobody else wants to argue over something so trivial, you only serve to validate my opinion on the matter. Plus, I have no need to offer you any further explanation anyway.
Thank you and goodnight.
Your post only serves to act as support for
Connor Macleod, but provides no new information. You need to reread the thread again because you clearly did not grasp the essence of the exchanges between
Connor Macleod and myself. Allow me to summarize it for you ...
It's his position that the query
X Y is not the same as
X AND Y, where in this particular case
X is Alexis and
Y is BangBus.
"However, your search term was flawed. You get better results with Alexis AND bangbus. Using the AND will eliminate hundreds, possibly thousands of results."
I disproved this by providing the
screen capture that showed the two searches were equivalent. He then claimed I must be using a different search page since his (undocumented) results differed from mine. I then pointed out to him the search results are identical if one used
simple search or
advanced search. Finally, I asked him to show me what search page he's using (if different from simple search or advanced search) and provide an example of an X, Y where the search query
X Y does not return the same results as
X AND Y. He's failed to do this and his arguments can best be summarized
here.
Now that I think about it, in
post #17, he claimed he got different results with and without use of the
AND operator :
Alexis AND BangBus --- results=12
Alexis OR BangBus ---- results=5000
Alexis BangBus ------- results=5000
How could
Alexis AND BangBus return only 12 results since the actual number was closer to 40 at the time he made his post? :