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[John Schinnerer <john@eco-living.net>]

Aloha,

> What I had in mind was
> expanding the existing controlled vocabulary and documenting
> it... creating usable expressions like 'hardy to -5F' (or -2C), and
> 'full shade', etc.  Google has it's own grammar and folks have even
> written books on it.  Anyway the goal in my head is to get to a place
> where we don't have to have a form with 50+ check boxes in order to
> generate a customized search.

I use Google, but I know nothing about their grammar...had no idea there 
were books on it...do I need to learn about it to use Google effectively?
Would people have to learn "our" grammar to use it effectively?

For some people, lots of drop-lists and checkboxes and so on in a form 
may well be easier, more comfortable, more familiar, more useable...

I would like us to provide both, since they can both work well.

John S.


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