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Maybe it would be good for online people to collaboratively design
keywords that can catch news of a specific kind. News can include new
Usenet messages that express a market demand.

Yao Ziyuan

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"Search proxy" might become a popular kind of software application
where end-users don't conceive keywords directly for a search; rather,
keywords are designed and updated by experts and are encapsulated into
"search commands", and the end-user invoke such "search commands".

Yao Ziyuan

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Or, an end-user can build upon an expert-made search command, adding
his own keywords to adapt the search criteria to his specific purpose.

Yao Ziyuan

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Not only adding, but any kind of modification.

Yao Ziyuan

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An end-user can build an advanced search criteria based on existing
search commands and his own keywords, like constructing a high-level
programming language program using software components and his own
code.

This new high-level search programming language lets a search engine
execute the user program to catch almost all likely results.

Yao Ziyuan

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The concept of OOP can also be introduced here. That is, when the end
user is referring to a "noun" search command, its associated "modifier"
and "predicate" search commands will be prompted by the computer.

Yao Ziyuan

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A new search paradigm: encapsulation of advanced search criteria.

Yao Ziyuan

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Maybe we can say that: WHEREVER THERE IS SYNTAX, THERE IS ENCAPSULATION.

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In implementation, we may need refactorization to divide the final
search criteria to multiple smaller criterias so that each smaller
criteria can be processed by current search engines.

The division process are based on "OR" operators in the original
criteria, and based on the principle that a smaller criteria would not
include too many "AND" operators.

Yao Ziyuan

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The parent message should go under ""search commands".

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The problem is, how does the computer tell the user what search
commands are available to use?

(1) The user consults a corss-referenced "book of search commands" or
collects search commands from related web pages.
(2) The user searches for search commands using keywords before
constructing the search criteria.
(3) The computer prompts related search commands after portion of the
user criteria is known.

Yao Ziyuan

[yaoz...@gmail.com]

SELF-WIDENING SEARCH COMMANDS

A search command can automatically provide a widened version of
internal search criteria if its default version returns too few search
results.

Yao Ziyuan

[yaoz...@gmail.com]

a search command is a powerful "keyword" (actually a complex search
criteria) that significantly improves your search.

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If the whole search criteria returns too few results, involved search
commands which can self-widen will gradually switch to wider versions.

Yao Ziyuan