[GRLUG] gnome tracker issue

[Eric Beversluis]

On Wed, 2012-10-03 at 13:51 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-10-03 at 13:29 -0400, Eric Beversluis wrote:
> > I'm trying to see how to use tracker. The tracker-search help says,
> > "Applies an AND operator to all terms separated by a space (see
> > --or-operator)."
> > Yet when I run 'tracker-search php return button' or 'tracker-search
> > "php return button" (I'm trying to find the document that has the phrase
> > 'php return button' in it, "build-class.php"), tracker returns all kinds
> > of documents, including many from /var/www/html, some of which don't
> > seem to have the work 'return' in them anywhere, but not the particular
> > document I'm looking for.
> > So two questions:
> > 1. Despite what the help says, is tracker-search doing an 'or' search
> > rather than an 'and' search?
> > 2. Why is it not finding the "build-class.php" document, which has the
> > desired phrase in it?
> 
> Probably because "return" is a stop word;  it is at least ignored in
> indexing.  This is typical of search engines, they will ignore certain
> common words.
> 
> Does tracker-search "php button" return the expected result?
> 

Nope.