Query Parsing

Mooglequeries are parsed very simply: any WHITESPACE-separated sequence of WORDs entered by the user is assumed to be a conjunctive query. That is, it is assumed that all terms are linked by (implicit) AND operators. The returned set of pages MUST contain all query terms. For example, the query

        quantum algorithms
would return only pages that contain both the WORDs quantum and algorithms. Note that this is a subset of the pages containing only quantum or only algorithms.

At the designer's option, the Mooglesuite MAY also support a more advanced ``AND/OR'' query language, described in Appendix C.



Terran Lane 2005-08-23