Re: [VuFind-Tech] and versus or queries [resolved]

[Andrew N. <as...@gm...>]

>
> Personally I have found the following query munging to be helpful.
> Suppose a person enters a multiple-word query, such as dorothy day. In
> applications I have written, I have trapped this query before sending
> along to the indexer and converted into the following Boolean query:
>
>   ("dorothy day") OR (dorothy AND day)
>
> I figure this is more explicit, and I hope phrase searches rank higher
> than not. If the person entered the query including syntactical sugar
> such as Boolean operator or a field designation, then I don't munge
> the query but pass it along figuring they know what they are doing.
>

I fully agree  - and this is why I'm working on the migration to the Dismax
handler as it handles this logic for us automatically.

Andrew