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| author | friendica <info@friendica.com> | 2014-03-08 23:45:26 -0800 |
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| committer | friendica <info@friendica.com> | 2014-03-08 23:45:26 -0800 |
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describe the known flaws
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diff --git a/doc/AdvancedSearch.md b/doc/AdvancedSearch.md index 8bcd5de69..5a9a5a3bc 100644 --- a/doc/AdvancedSearch.md +++ b/doc/AdvancedSearch.md @@ -38,7 +38,9 @@ Advanced requests include * keywords=xxx [Keywords contain xxx] -There are many reasons why a match may not return what you're looking for, as many channels do not provide detailed information in their default (public) profile, and many of these fields allow free-text input in any language which is difficult to match precisely. +There are many reasons why a match may not return what you're looking for, as many channels do not provide detailed information in their default (public) profile, and many of these fields allow free-text input in several languages - and this may be difficult to match precisely. For instance you may have better results finding somebody in the USA with 'country=u' (along with some odd channels from Deutschland and Bulgaria and Australia) because this could be represented in a profile as US, U.S.A, USA, United States, etc... + +Future revisions of this tool may try to smooth over some of these difficulties. Requests may be joined together with 'and', 'or', and 'and not'. |