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Find And Run Robot / Puzzling results
« on: January 24, 2009, 10:49 AM »
New user of FARR.
When I type mbna the top two entries that come up are :
I don't understand how Irfan can beat mbna.rfp. I have tried looking at the scoring options and have come up with:
These scores, although obviously only part of the story, are so heavily in favour of mbna.rfp (which is what I want) and yet it comes up second. Please could someone help me understand
i) the other entries in the Heuristic Scoring options
ii) what other tests are affecting the scores.
Thank-you.
(The Help file is badly out of date in many ways - the screen prints are of a previous version and some new features, such as the extra heuristic scoring options, that have been added to the application have not been added to the Help. This makes it very difficult for a new user such as myself to make the most of what is obviously a very powerful program.)
When I type mbna the top two entries that come up are :
| Name | Score | Location |
| IrfanView - Thumbnails.lnk | 878 | C:\Documents and Settings\xxx\StartMenu\Programs\IrfanView |
| mbna.rfp | 862 | K:\XXXXXXX\YYYYY |
I don't understand how Irfan can beat mbna.rfp. I have tried looking at the scoring options and have come up with:
| IrfanView | mbna.rfp | |
| Search Folders | ||
| %MYSTARTMENU% | 100 | |
| K:\XXXXXXX (Subdirectory depth = -1) | 100 | |
| Heuristic Scoring | ||
| History bonus (both are listed in my history) | 200 | 200 |
| Exact match | 100 | |
| Leftmost bonus | 150 | |
| Percentage of Search String | 25 (??) | |
| Whitespace Removal | 0 | 0 |
| (The other entries are not explained in the Help file and I can't work out how to use them.) | ||
| Pattern Scoring | ||
| *.rfp | 100 | |
| *.lnk | 50 | |
| Total | 350 | 675 |
These scores, although obviously only part of the story, are so heavily in favour of mbna.rfp (which is what I want) and yet it comes up second. Please could someone help me understand
i) the other entries in the Heuristic Scoring options
ii) what other tests are affecting the scores.
Thank-you.
(The Help file is badly out of date in many ways - the screen prints are of a previous version and some new features, such as the extra heuristic scoring options, that have been added to the application have not been added to the Help. This makes it very difficult for a new user such as myself to make the most of what is obviously a very powerful program.)