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  Tag theory does NOT fit the facts

  That's the title that I meant to put on my posts above!  The evidence is contrary to the notion that they are only searching tags.

  "Global Warming" does find more than "global warming".  But it seems to find the upper case usages in the text.  It finds only one press briefing where "Global Warming" appears with caps. Goggle reveals 70 where global warming is used.  Or it could be that "Global Warming" is used as a tag and only one press briefing is tagged and the full text search is being censored.

  The help page says the lower case searched are case insensitive and upper case searches are case sensitive, but clearly is does not work as documented.

  Clearly, the search engine has problems, but that does not mean they are not blocking "global warming" from full text searches.  The two are not mutually exclusive.On Search for 'global warming' to no avail posted 2 years, 9 months ago 10 Responses

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  The tag theory does fit the facts

  Also, consider this case found by real climate:

  "First off, there are some curious patterns in the whitehouse.gov search engine. It turns out that it has been blocked from returning most results if the search phrase includes "global warming" - even if it's from the President himself. For instance, searching for "issue of global" gives as top result the President's Rose Garden speech in June 2001 on Global Climate Change, but searching for "issue of global warming" (which of course is the full phrase used) returns nothing. Hmmm....."

  http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/02/qui ...

  If it's tags, then they are tagging "issue of global" but not tagging "issue of global warming" or "global warming".  That is not plausible.On Search for 'global warming' to no avail posted 2 years, 9 months ago 10 Responses

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  The tag theory does fit the facts

  The whitehouse.gov help page makes it clear that the full text is indexed and other documents are tagged:

  "Don't worry about missing a document because it doesn't have one of the words in your search -- your search returns relevant results even if they don't contain all query terms"

  http://www.whitehouse.gov/help/?la=en&text=0

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  If it's tags, then they are tagging "issue of global" but not tagging "issue of global warming" or "global warming".  That is not plausible.

  I will post these arguments over at kos as soon as my 24 hour waiting period for a kos account is over.On Search for 'global warming' to no avail posted 2 years, 9 months ago 10 Responses