Which search engine does partial word searches?

[Lindsay Morris]

I'm using WAIS, and the problem is:
a search for "pharmacy" gets 16 hits. Great.
a search for "pharm" gets nothing. Not great.

so what's a freeware search engine that will do partial word searches
(like lycos' engine)?

Thanks.
Lindsay Morris, ASD
1025 Dove Run Rd #302
Lexington KY 40502
(606) 268-7767

[Rasmus Lerdorf]

In article <4t0k1e$9...@herald.concentric.net>, Lindsay Morris wrote:
>I'm using WAIS, and the problem is:
> a search for "pharmacy" gets 16 hits. Great.
> a search for "pharm" gets nothing. Not great.
>
>so what's a freeware search engine that will do partial word searches
>(like lycos' engine)?

Try Glimpse.

--
Rasmus Lerdorf
ras...@madhaus.utcs.utoronto.ca

[tomas hood]

to...@halcyon.com (tomas hood) wrote:

>SWISH allows (from what I can tell) something like pharm* with the *
>being a wildcard. Maybe WAIS does this too? You could cgi it so
>that:

>user checks on a <X> Partial Word or < > Whole Words and enters the
>text, your cgi taking the selection and doing something like

>(*partialkeyword) or (partialkeyword*) then search with that rule

>I don't know if it works, I can try it, since I put up a SWISH engine
>at:

>http://www.accessnow.com/herbshop -- under the recipes link.

>tomas

Yup, I just tried it out on my recipe page:

I entered (*gar) or (gar*) and got all words starting or ending in
gar. I bet it would work to do (*gar*) as well... heh... nope, that
did not work. Though you get the source to SWISH, one could redo some
of the code there. There're lots of algorithms that cover this...
like the grep kind...

tomas

[tomas hood]

ras...@madhaus.utcs.utoronto.ca (Rasmus Lerdorf) wrote:

>In article <4t0k1e$9...@herald.concentric.net>, Lindsay Morris wrote:
>>I'm using WAIS, and the problem is:
>> a search for "pharmacy" gets 16 hits. Great.
>> a search for "pharm" gets nothing. Not great.
>>
>>so what's a freeware search engine that will do partial word searches
>>(like lycos' engine)?

SWISH allows (from what I can tell) something like pharm* with the *

[Travis Rockers]

Lindsay,
Alta Vista can do this! Alta Vista can do a lot of things. Take the
time, if you have it, to follow the tips link at their main page. You will
be amazed at what this search engine can do. If you are not familiar with
Alta Vista, it is different from most search engines because it indexes the
entire text of a page. Most engines only index the first few lines. Alta
Vista also lets you search Usenet, also known as Newsgroups, if you haven't
heard about this, e-mail me at tr...@sofnet.com and I will tell you more.
If you are in hurry, the answer to you question is what they call a
Wildcard in the Alta Vista search just use the Shift of 8 to get * . This
wildcard does have limits. I think some of them are things like it has to
be used somewhere around three or more characters into the search query and
will only bring up 5 characters following its placement in word. I used it
in a search about hacking to find results like hack, hacking, hacked,
hackers, and hackle. You get the picture.

Your welcome,
T.
J. Rockers
Monett MO

P.S. I attached a link to Alta Vista. You might have to
be using a Microsoft Internet Explorer browser, more specifically
the ver. 3.0 beta 2, for it to work. Let me know how it goes.

Web Explorers,
Let me know about cool things on the net for an 18 year old that has
interest in everything (hacking, phreaking, internet resources, etc. Hurry
with your feedback, I'll be in the Air Force basic training soon. Here are
two from me...
www.techbabble.com
www.cnet.com
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Lindsay Morris <lmo...@cris.con> wrote in article
<4t0k1e$9...@herald.concentric.net>...

> I'm using WAIS, and the problem is:
> a search for "pharmacy" gets 16 hits. Great.
> a search for "pharm" gets nothing. Not great.
>
> so what's a freeware search engine that will do partial word searches
> (like lycos' engine)?
>