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Improve the Search feature in the forums

PostPosted: Fri Apr 27, 2012 2:31 pm
by nietzsche
Seriously, it just plain sucks. Works sometimes, others clearly misses obvious targets. There must be a pattern which I don't care since I want to be able to find something I sort of remember being posted, don't have perfect memory to remember everything and then search for it.


Specifics/Details:
  • Misses many, many targets
  • Misses targets that you can still see in front of you
  • One should be able to find any matchs

How this will benefit the site and/or other comments:
  • Avoid duplicated posts
  • See what others have said about some topic
  • Saves a lot of time
  • In this day and age, websites are divided en those well organized, searchable, and those who are jut a bunch of pages

Re: Improve the Search feature in the forums

PostPosted: Fri Apr 27, 2012 3:07 pm
by AndyDufresne
Since we use phpBB, this is a sort of suggestion for them at their forum!

Have you tried using * as a wildcard for partial matches (of either posters or specific words for which you are seeking)? Or using the + and - to further define your searches?

For instance, this search brings up 930 results...essentially posts where I have mentioned "banana" without any mention of "munching" or "munches" within the post:
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While without the -munch (and thus searching just banana) I get 1437 results.

Remember, you can also limit your results to a specific time frame if you when you want to look for results. Here is might first search again (-munch* banana), limited to the last 2 weeks. 8 results are brought up:
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--Andy

Re: Improve the Search feature in the forums

PostPosted: Fri Apr 27, 2012 5:01 pm
by nietzsche
tl dr

Re: Improve the Search feature in the forums

PostPosted: Sat Apr 28, 2012 12:19 am
by Army of GOD
I agree. It's absolutely terrible. I'll spell a word incorrectly and get 0 results, then correct it and get 7 billion results.

Re: Improve the Search feature in the forums

PostPosted: Sat Apr 28, 2012 2:02 am
by nietzsche
To be honest, I hadn't tried the operators here. They don't work in most unsophisticated sites and sometime ago I set up in my mind that they didn't work here. My iq is below 100 i tend to make these mistakes.

I just tried them and they do work. And to think that a lot of times got angry because I was trying to find something and thought to my self ''of course this shit don't work''.

Go ahead and close this thread.

I just don't like Andy, so it took AoG's post to realize the Search do work.

Re: Improve the Search feature in the forums

PostPosted: Sat Apr 28, 2012 2:03 am
by nietzsche
Seriously who likes Andy, he's like fucking Flanders. And his banana jokes are like Flanders doodili didili or whatever.

Re: Improve the Search feature in the forums

PostPosted: Sat Apr 28, 2012 1:49 pm
by blakebowling
Locked at the request of the OP.