February 1st, 2002
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 Re: Gnutella AND Boolean Arithmetics
Quote: Originally posted by veniamin
If you wanted to find all the files containing the word gnutella and all the files containing the word pdf you should send two queries.
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But if a "new" client sends the query and an "old" client receive it, it will not understand the Boolean arguments (AND, OR, NOT) and try to find filenames containing these words. | The AND search by default is a quick way to save bandwidth instead of returning a match for any of the words. With AND a search for "The ..." won't return too many results where in an OR search too many results would be returned so the servent would need to look at a stopwords file before sending.
For the second thing I quoted, for backwards compatibility a new message would probably need to be added that only contains the logical operators. |
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