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s.cawood@gmail.com - 30 Mar 2006 12:06 GMT

We were getting errors when users searched for the term "r&d" - with or
without quotes - so we removed all single-letter words from the noise
word files (.eng, .enu and .dat). We then started Microsoft Search
again and did a full population - "rebuild" was grayed out.
This stopped the error but now we get no results.
Questions:
1) Why are we getting no results?
2) Is "&" a word breaker? Can we change this?

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Hilary Cotter - 30 Mar 2006 17:01 GMT

Are there any messages in the event log from MSSearch or MSSCI?

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> We were getting errors when users searched for the term "r&d" - with or
> without quotes - so we removed all single-letter words from the noise
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
> 1) Why are we getting no results?
> 2) Is "&" a word breaker? Can we change this?

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