hpche - 6:00 pm on Oct 25, 2002 (gmt 0)

Thanks for the replies.

Okay what I meant was if I searched for the term 'World Cup' and the (theoretically) most relevant sites all had 'Fifa World Cup' or 'World cup 2002' in the title it wouldn't find them, as it would effectively be trying to match the word 'worldcup' against the word 'fifaworldcup'. Adding spaces between the keywords wouldn't help much as it would then be trying to match 'world cup' against 'fifaworldcup', which would still fail. At least for Thai, having spaces in between the words is an unnatural writing style, it'd be like having full stops after every word in English. If you forced a search engine to search in English for "World.Cup" including the full stop you'd doubtless still get some relevant results but they're not the likely to be the best ones.

The results are even worse when searching for, say, 5 words at time. Unless the words make an entire sentence by themselves then it almost always produces no results. If you put spaces in between them, it basically looks for 5 one-word sentences which also doesn't give good results.

I'm not sure I explained all that very well, but I hope you get what I mean.

It would be nice if there was a way of the search matching (from a search engines point of view) just a bit of a single word instead of entire words, which would certainly make it easier. Yahoo does it for directory matches e.g. [search.yahoo.com...] but a similar search on google produces no results.

Thanks for the suggestions Terje, I'll try them out.