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  • gfineman
    Junior Member
    • May 2005
    • 19

    #1

    boolean search element of NOT

    Is there a way to emulate the major search engines and provide the NOT function as in
    plumber NOT "hot water"

    On Google, we would use +plumber -"hot water"

    Thanks
    Gabe Fineman
    Washington, DC
    -Gabe Fineman
    Washington, DC [still defranchised]
  • Ray
    Administrator
    • Dec 2004
    • 4357

    #2
    Zoom does not currently support a boolean NOT operation. However, this is something we would consider for a future version.
    --Ray
    Wrensoft Web Software
    Sydney, Australia
    Zoom Search Engine

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    • iampedro
      Member
      • Jul 2006
      • 21

      #3
      Will this be avaible for version 5.0?

      And can I modify the code to allow for me to have this search function?

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      • David
        Administrator
        • Dec 2004
        • 4714

        #4
        This was already introduced in release Version 4.2.1000 (17 Aug 2005)

        Exclusion/negative searches: This allows your users to perform search queries which exclude a certain keyword by preceding the search term with a hyphen (eg. "cats -dog" would return all pages containing the word "cat" but not the word "dog").

        You can't have negative phrases however. Just negative words.

        ------
        David

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