Maybe it’s just me being dense …
My query is
(vollmer NEAR sprenger) AND (management OR leadership OR führung OR business OR menschen)
First ranked result contains only the term “business”.
What am I not getting?
What’s the URL of this result and which search set or plugin did you use?
Search set: Customized Web (Deeper) with
- Secondary query: -warenkorb
- Excluded domains: .amazon., .abebooks.
Result URL: timesofmalta.com/sections/view/business
If you specify a secondary query, then this query is used to match the pages whereas the primary query is only used to start the search.
Thanks Christian!
I see. Still makes me wonder: In my view, a result containing only a terms from the parenthesized OR clause is no valid result in the forst place.
For reference:
(X NEAR Y) AND (Z OR A OR B OR C OR D)
Because most search engines don’t support NEAR, you through the other clause at them?
When I am trying to understand how Agent works here, I would have thought that X NEAR Y would be translated to X AND Y or at least +X +Y.
Then again, given the dismal support for proper search in today’s search engines, does Agent flatten the whole query to somethink like:
X Y A B C D
I understand you have to work with what you get from Google and Co. But is there not a better way to optimize this?
Thanks & sorry
Sascha
Did you remove or change the secondary query? Otherwise the primary query and all its operators don’t matter.
Sorry Christian, I believe I stated my issue in a confusing way. Please let me rephrase.
- I search with Web (Deeper) for
(vollmer NEAR sprenger) AND (management OR leadership OR führung OR business OR menschen)
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The result contains the page timesofmalta.com/sections/view/business
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The page contains only the terms management and business.
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And this strikes me as odd.
PS. The secondary query I used earlier was -warenkorb, which does match the page since it does not contain the term warenkorb - so that’s fine.
A screenshot of the Search window showing the “Settings” tab would be useful so that both the primary and secondary query are visible. Because…
…specifying a secondary query -warenkorb means that all pages not containing warenkorb are accepted - the primary query doesn’t matter.
Weird. I just used the same settings but the website isn’t accepted. Then I created a new search set, set the above primary query and added the website to the “Sites” tab. And once again the page isn’t returned as expected.
Could you save a search via File > Save As…, zip the saved search and send it to cgrunenberg - at - devon-technologies.com? Thanks in advance! Finally, which version do you use?
Thanks Christian!
Might take me until Thursday 
