Search relevancy

[phil13]

Nils,

Recently I have used the search function to find threads about Medtner. So, I type in the word 'Medtner'. Many threads pop up.  However, no matter how effective they are, the 'relevancy' of the thread (for which I request a definition of what this actually MEANS) is never more than 9 or 10 percent. It goes down to fractions of 1 percent.

I don't get this.

All of the threads have to do with Medtner.

Many of them are in every which way 'relevant' to what I want, which is info about Medtner or his works.

Some are even TITLED 'Medtner' and gave me the info I wanted at about...5 percent relevency.

What is this?!?

Phil

[debussy symbolism]

Greetings.

This might not be right, but if a thread had a 100 words and all of them were Medtner. Then it would be a 100 percent match. However, even though a thread might be named Medtner, Medtner might be mentioned very little in the thread overall. I think that the search searches for word matches, not meaning matchers. There fore it is unreliable. This is just my guess.