Hi folks,
I’ve had DEVONagent for years but never quite the hang of it. I’m having another go but am getting a lot of old hits. Is there a way to prioritise or limit to eg the last ten years?
I’m looking for material discussing age discrimination in higher education (against students rather than staff). So I’ve put together strings like ‘(“mature student” OR “mature students”) AND (“higher education” OR “university”) AND (“UK” OR “United kingdom”)’ but am getting hits from 1976, 2003 and so on (depending on which search set).
You’d need to split into two different wildcard in order to get expected result. For instance, I’m using your search terms and move your target locations into Secondary Query entry and also expanding file formats and types.
Restricting searcha via date ranges isn’t a precise thing. Not all search engines support it or it’s implemented in non-standard ways.
The Fast search utilizes Google, Bing, and Yahoo. If you look at those kinds of searches in a browser, you’ll see a difference or a lack.
Also, just entering the dates may help but that would also detect dates in the web content. It wouldn’t necessarily be indicative of when the web page was created or modified.
PS: You can better your query by using wildcards, e.g,…
"mature student*" AND (universit* OR "higher education*")
This matches student, students, university, universities, education, and educational.
You can also use a Secondary Query of (201? OR 202?) to post-filter the results.
A Secondary Query of (201? OR 202?) to post-filter the results work for me.
To me, if the document created date or modified date is critical, I’d probably include +202? OPT 201? as a query string but I’m not sure if the DEVONAgent engine supported this kind of syntax or not.
There are various ways to use the search engine more productively, such as 5W1H prior to setting proper keywords against aimed content, applying suitable Boolean Logic, and +, - to narrow down the scope.
The missing puzzle to me is that all the query string and wildcard has been published on the Youtube channel are as follow:
AND
OR
XOR
NOT
Term1 OPT Term2
term1 NEAR/20 term2
term1 BEFORE term2
term1 AFTER term2
(Russian OR Soviet) AND submarines
DEVON* search for the same prefix
iPad mini AND (iPad NEAR Retina)
~Monterey
firem?n
I’m looking forward to learning the core skill sets of the DEVONAgent.
It’s relatively hard to find an advanced syntax(or query strings) against searching call flow specified to the DEVONAgent at the moment. If you could share it to me, I’d be highly grateful.
