Indeed, feel free to bug it.
I've also forwarded this to the program manager responsible for the gallery
search feature. I'll post a reply when I hear back from him.
-J
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Thank!
John Thornton
Program Manager - Vista Photos Imaging and eXperience
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"Zack Whittaker" <admin@zacknet.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Might want to bug this 
) Available options here:
> http://www.vistabase.co.uk/welcome.php?bugreport
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> of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared
> that up!
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> "Sean McLeod" <seanmcleod@newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
> news:CE8B8131-92A0-4023-B18C-EA67E7726557@microsoft.com...
>> Hi
>>
>> I've been tagging a number of my images and performing some test queries
>> against them. I've been using a combination of:
>>
>> - Windows Search UI via Start->Search the Index
>> - Windows Gallery GUI to select/mutliple select tags on the left pane
>> - Windows Gallery Search box
>>
>> What I've noticed is that the Windows Gallery Search box doesn't accept
>> the same query syntax as the Windows Search UI. For example the following
>> is allowed in the Windows Search UI but doesn't return any results in
>> Windows Gallery.
>>
>> tag:quinton tag:marcelle
>>
>> In Windows Gallery this fails to return pictures tagged with marcelle or
>> quinton.
>>
>> Typing just quinton by itself works, so it seems to match the text
>> against tags automatically and against filenames.
>>
>> However I can't get this to work in the search box "quinton or marcelle"
>> or "quinton and marcelle". It's probably seeing the complete query text
>> as a single tag/filename.
>>
>> Is there any documentation on the query syntax and options for the search
>> box in Windows Gallery?
>>
>> Any reason it isn't consistent with regular Windows Search? I can
>> understand allowing shortcuts like not having to specify 'tag' but
>> assuming it as a default, but I think it should in addition support the
>> Windows Search UI syntax as well.
>>
>> Cheers
>
>