New Feature: Boolean and Advanced Search
By using Boolean or Advanced search, users can target posts, profiles, and links more precisely with Open Measures' tooling.
Researchers can now use Open Measures’ open-source tools to fine-tune their search results. By using one of two new options—Boolean or Advanced search—users can target posts, profiles, and links more precisely than using Basic search.
Basic
In this update, Basic search replaces our legacy “default search” but works the same way. A Basic search looks for an exact term in a content field of a given dataset. These content values are site-specific, and a full list of them can be found in our docs.
Boolean
A Boolean search uses both special operators and keywords to narrow or broaden the parameters of searches for a specific content field. Those operators are:
AND
OR
()
Boolean search can locate multiple keywords at once and/or one of several in a given content field. Related terms must be grouped in parentheses (for an example Boolean query, see the image below).
Advanced
An Advanced search uses filters, special operators, and keywords to do deeper searches into all available data fields, rather than just one content field. This way, users can find (for example):
Messages containing a keyword within a specific channel on Telegram
Posts from multiple account usernames on Gab
Titles of videos from a specific channel on BitChute
Information from any data field in any specific part of a dataset for any given keyword(s)
An example Advanced query for the Telegram dataset would look like this:
The terms used in an Advanced search correspond to various fields in each dataset crawled by Open Measures. This means the terms used in each query will depend on which dataset a user wants to look into (eg, the fields Open Measures crawls on Telegram are different than those crawled on Rumble, therefore the leading filter(s) will also be different).
A list of field names for all Open Measures datasets can be found on our Datasets page.
Conclusion
With this new search interface, users will be able to get more out of Open Measures’ tooling than ever before. Thanks as ever for your support—and to stay up-to-date with all our latest product releases, sign up for our Substack below: