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engels at uni-koblenz
Feb 25, 2003, 2:15 AM
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In the past, I found it useful to be able to use "and not" in my search (in
particular to filter out the Rambot pages when looking for years). I recently
found that it does not work - or more precisely, that it does not work on the
English Wikipedia. It does work on the others (checked only Dutch and German).
What is going on, and why?

Andre Engels
Re: and not [ In reply to ]
brion at pobox
Feb 24, 2003, 11:53 PM
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On mar, 2003-02-25 at 01:15, Andre Engels wrote:
> In the past, I found it useful to be able to use "and not" in my search (in
> particular to filter out the Rambot pages when looking for years). I recently
> found that it does not work - or more precisely, that it does not work on the
> English Wikipedia. It does work on the others (checked only Dutch and German).
> What is going on, and why?

Search is one of the slowest things on the wiki. I disabled our boolean
search to cut down on the number of matches it tries to perform.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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