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#738 Power Search Shortcuts

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nobody
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2006-11-22
2006-11-22
KosherJava
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Google and many search engines have shortcuts for power searching. For example a Google search for
allintitle:PhpGedView will only search for sites that have the word PhpGedView in the title.
It would be nice if PGV had support for
surn:Smith
givn:Joe
src:social
daterange:1900-1920 (people with events in that range or were living at the time, so results would be returned for someone who was born in 1890 and died in 1940)
type:dmsoundex (or soundex)
childof:Jack (a search for "Joe childof:Jack" (without the quotes) would only return results for a Joe the son of Jack)
plac:Poland (would restrict results to people who had events that took place in Poland (Krakow or Poland Spring would be returned in this search)
isalive:y (or yes) would only show living people
-Joe(exclude results that contain Joe)

By the way PGV does not currently support exact phrase searches that include quotes such as a search for "Social Security"

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