Yep thats a pity and a bit inconsistent between the UI tag selection in
Photo Gallery and the search box in Photo Gallery.
For example clicking on mutliple tags in the UI results in a search or'ing
the selected tags, where as typing in the same set of tags in the search box
results in an and'ing of them.
Cheers
"John Thornton [MSFT]" <johnthor@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:OwjFD49iGHA.412@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> The Windows Photo Gallery did not implement the advanced query syntax that
> Shell implemented due to limitations in our architecture. There is no
> query syntax in the Photo Gallery, all terms are and'ed together
> automatically.
>
> Thank!
> John Thornton
> Program Manager - Vista Photos Imaging and eXperience
>
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> "John Thornton [MSFT]" <johnthor@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:u5XHmj9iGHA.3848@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> 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
>>
>> --
>> Thank!
>> John Thornton
>> Program Manager - Vista Photos Imaging and eXperience
>>
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>> rights.
>> "Zack Whittaker" <admin@zacknet.co.uk> wrote in message
>> news:ug%23fsVziGHA.1208@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>>> 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!
>>>
>>> --: Original message follows :--
>>> "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
>>>
>>>
>>
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