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Old Aug 2, 2007 | 12:36 pm
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Originally Posted by Randy Petersen
I hope this makes sense and again, the suggestion by Motor Mouth, which is most excellent is one that helps members with precision and that is welcome within the current sue of search on FlyerTalk.
I think you're missing my point. If "AKL*" takes more resources on the server than "AKL", as well as "AKL*" being not as close to what people want as "AKL", then why encourage people to search for "AKL*"?

If people were allowed to search for "AKL", and did so instead of searching for "AKL*", then:

1. The server burden would be reduced (I think)
and
2. People would get more accurate search results.

Isn't that a win-win?
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