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Visit Metadata and use the find facility in your web browser (e.g., in Internet Explorer use Ctrl+F) to search on the word Warwick. The result from this search lead you to three kinds of occurrences of the word Warwick.
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What are they?
"Warwick Framework": a model for handling metadata; "Warwick University"; "Paper given by Dr. Warwick Cathro".
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Were the results of this search very precise?
They were precise in that they found the word "Warwick", but they had no concept of meaning, so if I were looking for this word within a particular context it may have been an issue.
You might also like to use the find facility to search on other web pages which contain a lot of text, and identify the kinds of issues which arise.
I went to heyjude.wordpress.com and did a search for the word "Google". It came up with "Google" in all sorts of contexts (Google+, Google search engine, Google Scholar...). Then I got distracted reading all the interesting things about Google and had to make sure I had Google Scholar set up properly... I think I get the idea about the search function and the idea of a full-text search. It's a handy thing, but if it's a common word in a large document/web page then it could be more trouble than it's worth. I wonder what we can do to make it more specific...?
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