Experts-Exchange.com Newsletter May 29, 2003
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What's in Experts-Exchange's Newsletter
- EE Tip of the Week: Fuzzy Searches
- EE Premium Services
- Featured Expert
- Experts Exchange Rewrite
- Million Point Club
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EE Tip of the Week: Get faster responses to your questions!
Fuzzy Searches
We supports fuzzy searches based on the Levenshtein Distance, or Edit Distance algorithm. To do a fuzzy search use the tilde, "~", symbol at the end of a Single word Term. For example to search for a term similar in spelling to "roam" use the fuzzy search:
roam~
This search will find terms like foam and roams.
Note:Terms found by the fuzzy search will automatically get a lower boost factor of 0.2.
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Premium Services!
Premium Search provides you maximum searching capabilities allowing you to search all of Experts-Exchange knowledge base of over 700,000 solutions. Premium Search is only available for Premium Services members. = Here are some of the features:
Smart Ranking - display most relevant questions first
Area Searching - only search areas relevant to your question
Wildcard Searches - expand your search results with wildcards
Fuzzy Searches - find your answer even if the word your searching for is misspelled
Proximity Searching - locate documents containing words near each other
Term Boosting - raise the relevancy of search terms
Boolean Operators - supports AND,NOT, and OR boolean operators
Field Searching - search only desired field
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Here's what Premium Members are saying about Premium Search.
dew_associates - "Nicely done! I'm impressed, and that doesn't happen often!.
Mindphaser - "Nice and fast! Searching is fun again. The enhanced features (wildcards) finally make it possible to search for singular/plural forms".
COBOLdinosaur - "It is one hell of a good job"
angelIII - "This search IS fast!!!"
Sethi - "Excellent search. One of the best seen so far. Excellently grouped with useful headers."
Signup for Premium Services Now!
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angelIII is the featured expert for May
There are over a million members using Experts Exchange to get their IT solutions, but the heart and soul of Experts Exchange are the Experts that spend countless hours answering questions. Here's a profile of one expert:
User Name: angelIII
Member since: 03/09/00
Expert points: 998,213
Questions asked: 126
Questions answered: 3122
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Experts Exchange Rewrite
After many months of hard work the entire site rolled out with new code on May 19. All of the code including the database was rewritten. This enormous task was a major accomplishment by our engineering team. With the rewrite comes the ability to implement new features and resolve old bugs that the old legacy code was prone to. This is a major milestone in Experts Exchange's history. We would like to thank everyone who helped in this process.
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The Million Point Club
Million point club
Did you know that there are eight members in the million point club?
These experts have collectively answered over 22,000 questions.
jkr: 1488328
CrazyOne: 1458367
jhance: 1253981
nico5038: 1138182
SysExpert: 1134158
stevenlewis: 1114507
dew_associates: 1066848
nietod: 1006590
We will be rolling out a new and improved Hall Of Fame over the next few=20
weeks to honor these and the other experts that have made Experts
Exchange the #1 technology site in the world.
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