There have been some questions coming up with the advanced search function on Message Magic.
We covered much of this in one of the workshops earlier in the week but it never hurts to add it here as well.
The main thing to keep in mind with the advanced search feature is that you will be “narrowing” down your search results.
Today this question was asked…
Question: I am just running an advanced search. Added first some keywords, then selected a country. The keywords show between 53 and 237 counts. In the Messageing list there are only 9! …. anybody got an idea? will it send my message to add contacts to only those 9?
Answer: What happens is you enter your keyword in the search pattern and then click on advanced search and add in the criteria of say “United States.” Message Magic will return all users found for the “keyword” in the search pattern window but in the users window it will only list those that are in the United States.
The patterns found and users will more than likely never match in such an instance as above. To double check the results you can even pick a couple of random user names from the ‘user’ window and do a search on skype for that name (which is what we ran live in the workshop for everyone to see) and you’ll see they pull up with being in the United States.
Another thing to keep in mind is not everyone lists their country or state so those would also be eliminated from the search.
By listing both all users found for the keyword and those for the narrowed search Message Magic gives you a guage of the difference your advanced search has made. This is a very valuable comparison.
Posted by Melody Baum 
Posted by Melody Baum 
