More On Search Patterns in Message Magic

Julie read and explained the chapter on “More Search Patterns” from the Message Magic Advanced Users Guide

There are a few questions asked in the audio too, so listen to it and you may find some interesting answers. Here is also a link to a post with visuals that will help you to follow the audio, so I advise you to have that post open while you listen to the audio.

More On Search Patterns:
Something to think about is how BIG the Skype database of users is. The last time I checked they had well over 200 Million user ids issued to people. This is so huge it’s staggering! But think about that for a minute. How many people named Fred do you think use Skype? Thousands? Tens of thousands? Hundreds of thousands? Why is it then that when you do a search for Fred you only get a couple hundred ids? It is because Skype doesn’t want to send you a list of thousands, tens of thousands, or even millions of ids all at once!

So what to do when you KNOW there are more ids than what Skype is giving us during this search? Repeat the search! That’s right, it’s a simple thing you can play around with but here is what to do… Enter Fred twice (or 3 or 4 or however many times as you want) as a search pattern! Then press Search and off MM will go looking for users. While in previous versions of MM you’d end up with a lot of duplicate ids in the Users window, as of v1.3 you’ll only end up with UNIQUE ids in that window, and also scheduled to be released at about the same time is the whole database management section available in the members area. This too is a feature available for paying members since this type of feature takes a lot of bandwidth and server space and those are the people entitled to use it.

Free members also have a solution… just save all the contacts you’re getting into an Excel spreadsheet, or whatever your favourite spreadsheet is, sort the lists alphabetically then build a formula to look for and then remove the dups. It’s a bit tedious but can easily be done.I have a discussion further on about this very issue

Melody also explained more about search patterns and gave some good tips.

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