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Alex - search bug?
Don't know if this a really a bug per se but...

One of my visitors pointed out an oddity in the search results when using an apostrophe in the site title or link description:

When doing a search for 'Logan's Run' as keywords, 9 sites are returned, no categories are returned (since I can't include an apostrophe in the category title, this makes sense).

When doing a search for 'Logans Run' with no punctuation (as keywords) the category and three sites are returned. The thing is, only one of those sites doesn't have an apostrophe; the other two do and are also returned with the first search. Just to make things fun, the same search as a phrase only returns the one link, not the category (i.e. it says it found "0" categories).

Any ideas what would cause this sort of behavior? Shouldn't the phrase search at least have found the matching category name? Which would you consider the "correct" response from the script?

If its helpful, try it out for yourself:
speculativevision.com/network/
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Thread Alex - search bug? Brad Richardson 2986 Mar 16, 1999, 10:29 PM
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Alex 2870 Mar 17, 1999, 3:51 PM
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Brad Richardson 2873 Mar 17, 1999, 4:21 PM
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JimN 2859 Mar 21, 1999, 10:49 PM
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Brad Richardson 2873 Mar 22, 1999, 10:50 AM
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JimN 2859 Mar 22, 1999, 2:15 PM