Re: Query results disambiguation

[Joe Shaw <joeshaw novell com>]

Hi,

On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 11:54 -0700, D Bera wrote:
> A better way would be to inform the user in the UI that "Search returned
> too many documents. Refine your search using advanced search options
> yada yada yada ...". It sometimes does take me 2-3 iterations of
> google search to get the right results ;-).

For what it's worth, Google does this too.  Their results are capped at
1000, I believe, but nobody ever makes it that far because they just
refine their search terms.  The search page lies (Results 1-10 of about
94,000,000).  Maybe we should do something similar.

Joe