From 8b04db794f72d620aff1f10a7e580ad6b09681a4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: friendica Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2014 23:45:26 -0800 Subject: describe the known flaws --- doc/AdvancedSearch.md | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) 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'. -- cgit v1.2.3