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Subject: searching the web vs free text searching
Category: Computers > Internet
Asked by: tatman303-ga
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Posted: 15 Nov 2005 04:51 PST
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Question ID: 593182

Can you explain in simple terms the issues that make searching on the
web different from conventional free text searching?

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Subject: Re: searching the web vs free text searching
From: mguillamet-ga on 15 Nov 2005 08:06 PST

The free-text field allows you to search for text anywhere in a
citation, including the title, series or journal name, and abstract.
Source: http://popindex.princeton.edu/search/help/text.html

More info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_text_search

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