Problem with search

[d_ryabov]

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Problem with search

Short, concise description of the idea
Trying to search for "TeX" or "LaTeX" I get absolutely unrelevant messages

Full description of the ideaYour search engine consider "LaTeX" (typography system developed by D.Knuth) and "latex" as the same keyword, and as a result it suggests unrelevant posts if a user search for "LaTeX

Comments

[scien]

Which search engine do you mean, out of interest?

Google gives the same results regardless of capitalisation too. It's pretty standard. While this is relevant for LaTeX, for the most part it would be a pain if you had to match case on most search results. You can generally narrow down your search results by adding more relevant keywords like 'document' etc.

[d_ryabov]

I tried to use standard search form on livejournal.com (seems it resulted to use of Yandex search engine).

I know it's problem of almost all existing search engines (I've tested search for '"LaTeX" site:livejournal.com' in google, bing, yahoo, yandex, and all of them restricts search to lowercase "latex").

I don't know what to do, but it's clear that search results are irrelevant. Maybe you can send "feature request" to Yandex Team (unlikely they will read request from unknown person like me).

As to "LaTeX document", unfortunately LaTeX term is mostly used "as is", that is search for "LaTeX document" results in very limited set of posts/comments.

[scien]

Just to be clear, I'm also a random, not any kind of official reply!

I've tried a few searches and you're right, none of them really work any better (although amusingly, this post is now top of most of them :)). I think this is a quirk that's specific to this and maybe a handful of other queries though.

[d_ryabov]

OK. Hope LJ support read this suggestion too.

BTW, I found another lowercase-related issue of search engines: DOS (disk operating system) and DoS (deny of service).