PubMed query problem

[Han]

Duncan Clark <blackhole from abuse.plus.com> wrote in 
news:3bUwHEBSmrSGFA1j from abuse.plus.com:

> Historians believe that in newspost 
> <1179271012.138608.294220 from p77g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> on Tue, 15 May 
> 2007, WS <novalidaddress from nurfuerspam.de> penned the following literary 
> masterpiece:
>>I know that I could include the [author] directive, but why do I the
>>get the paper, when I add the initials?
> 
> Presumably because the search engine software knows that a word followed 
> by letter is most likely to be an author name? There is a lot on syntax 
> in the help and FAQ's but an e-mail to Pubmed themselves may get an 
> explanation.
> 
> Duncan

The system is not consistent.  The OP's original search does not work with 
"walker logie", but "broekman cohen" works fine.  Why?  Search for logie in 
pubmed and there will be many results.  If you display enough, there will 
be 2 with walker as author.  Something simple is missing from the search 
input parsing.
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Best regards
Han 
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