{"id":31358,"date":"2018-03-13T21:02:56","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T21:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=31358"},"modified":"2018-03-13T21:02:56","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T21:02:56","slug":"computer-searches-literal-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/computer-searches-literal-search\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer searches: literal search?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>For me, refining search techniques leads to constant self-tutoring. The tutor shares a discovery about searching on some sites.<\/h1>\n<p>Today I was at a site and entered the search term &#8220;triglyceride&#8221;, quotes and all. Two articles were offered in reply: the page showed the first paragraph of each. From there, I saw the word &#8220;triglyceride&#8221; in one.<\/p>\n<p>I clicked the other article and scanned it for &#8220;triglyceride&#8221;, but couldn&#8217;t find it. I then asked the browser to find &#8220;triglyceride&#8221; on the page: <em>No result found<\/em>. The article itself was about cholesterol.<\/p>\n<p>As far as I&#8217;m aware, entering a word in quotes suggests literal search. Moreover, triglyceride and cholesterol are not equivalent; the terms have different meanings. Even so, within the site I was visiting, the search utility seemed to decide that &#8220;cholesterol&#8221; is closely enough related to &#8220;triglyceride&#8221; to return an article about cholesterol to a literal query about triglyceride. Curious.<\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For me, refining search techniques leads to constant self-tutoring. The tutor shares a discovery about searching on some sites. Today I was at a site and entered the search term &#8220;triglyceride&#8221;, quotes and all. Two articles were offered in reply: &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/computer-searches-literal-search\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Computer searches: literal search?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1073,1],"tags":[2800],"class_list":["post-31358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-skills","category-uncategorized","tag-search-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31358"}],"version-history":[{"count":46,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31404,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31358\/revisions\/31404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}