Altavista - case sensitive or not (reprise)

.. not that it matters much

[4eyes]

It used to be case sensitive
Then it stopped being case sensitive (July 2001??)

I have now been advised that it is still providing case sensitive results in some circumstances - I can't replicate this of course.

Is this an IP delivery issue?

Is anyone else seeing case sensitive results?

[Damian]

>Is anyone else seeing case sensitive results?

I'm not from my end.

[4eyes]

Think I may be closer to solving it.

AV is case sensitive when phrase searching (ie with speech marks)

Still interested to hear if anyone is spotting case sensitive results without the speech marks though.

[seth_wilde]

I'm only getting case sensitive results when using quotes..

[littleman]

Same here.

[4eyes]

That must be it then.

Still, that was news to me.

..not that it matters much, of course.

[Black Knight]

AV used to have a weird setup whereby its case sensitivity was turned on *only* if the search used upper case. It broke down as follows:

Lower case search terms = non case-sensitive results.

Proper case (mixed upper and lower) = case-sensitive results.

All upper case search = case-sensitive results.

No idea what they are doing now, but I think it is still a mixture dependant on use of case in search terms.

Ammon Johns

[seth_wilde]

Yeah that's the way they used to be Ammon, but it doesn't seem to be the case anymore..