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Searching Like Yahoo :)
Links SQL has to search like Yahoo, here is an example of what I mean:

TITLE:
Auto Shop
DESCRIPTION:
Find the best car accessories. Wheels, stereos, and more.
URL:
www.racestore.com

In Yahoo if you search words like:

car shop
wheels shop
race wheels
shop stereo
stereo store
auto store
wheels accessories
best wheels

You will receive a good match of that link, what they do is very easy, the search engine looks in all the words of the Title, Description, and Url, to receive a good match, you can write words in any order, and Yahoo is going to give you a good match.

In this moment Links 2.0 works very well searching, but the thing I don't like is that it can't search in any order in the Title, Description, and Url. If you use the example I give you below in to links, you are going to see that if you search words like:

Wheels accessories
best wheels

You are going to receive a good match, but if you search words like:

car shop
wheels shop
race wheels
shop stereo
stereo store
auto store

You are not going to receive a good match, because Links can't search in any order in any of the camps like: Title, Description, and URL.

Also Yahoo removes from the searches very common words like:

What
I
a
is

The best I would like to see in Links SQL, is that we can remove words from the searches, that way, everyone can make their search engines work like they want.
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Thread Searching Like Yahoo :) SuperSearch 5616 Sep 24, 1999, 5:02 PM
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pugdog 5504 Sep 24, 1999, 6:31 PM
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pugdog 5522 Sep 24, 1999, 9:27 PM
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SuperSearch 5501 Sep 25, 1999, 8:39 AM
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Alex 5494 Sep 26, 1999, 11:45 AM
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pugdog 5490 Sep 26, 1999, 1:05 PM
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SuperSearch 5502 Sep 27, 1999, 7:49 AM
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pugdog 5499 Sep 29, 1999, 12:49 PM
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SuperSearch 5498 Sep 29, 1999, 2:50 PM
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pugdog 5496 Sep 29, 1999, 3:22 PM
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SuperSearch 5535 Sep 29, 1999, 3:26 PM
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Alex 5514 Sep 30, 1999, 6:23 AM
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pugdog 5502 Sep 30, 1999, 6:41 AM