AtomicCEO Posted July 12, 2005 Share Posted July 12, 2005 (edited) I've tried a few times to do advanced searches, and I have problems... According to the "advanced usage help": "+apple +juice" will find posts with both words in it. But, test it out for yourself... if you type "+ass +munch" into the search engine (as an example), all of the results have "munch" in them... but most of them do not have "ass". Another problem is with the exact phrase search. If I try to search for "that'll do newbie"... it won't let me perform the search because "do" only has two letters... but if I'm looking for a long string... it shouldn't care that just one of the words is under 2 letters. That makes the exact phrase search very limited. Am I doing something wrong? Incidentally... if you search for "ass munch", 9 of the 21 found results are from Sarge. Edited July 12, 2005 by AtomicCEO Quote Link to comment
AtomicCEO Posted July 19, 2005 Author Share Posted July 19, 2005 Billy? Did anyone see this? Or is it the opinion of the staff that the search function is working properly? Quote Link to comment
rocknrobn26 Posted July 19, 2005 Share Posted July 19, 2005 I did yours and I did "+cell +phones" and got the same results, it highlights both words. Quote Link to comment
AtomicCEO Posted July 20, 2005 Author Share Posted July 20, 2005 I did yours and I did "+cell +phones" and got the same results, it highlights both words. 885761[/snapback] It highlights both words... but if you look through the results of a search on "+cell +phones", you will see that it returns a post from "boat_hacked" in the "Pet Peeves" thread that only has the word "phone" in it... but not the word "cell". The plus signs are supposed to return results that only have both words in it. Quote Link to comment
rocknrobn26 Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 It highlights both words... but if you look through the results of a search on "+cell +phones", you will see that it returns a post from "boat_hacked" in the "Pet Peeves" thread that only has the word "phone" in it... but not the word "cell". The plus signs are supposed to return results that only have both words in it. 886801[/snapback] We agree, maybe I mis-spoke. What I meant to say was it highlights cell, phone, and cell phone, when it should only find cell phone. Bad search engine I guess. Quote Link to comment
AtomicCEO Posted July 22, 2005 Author Share Posted July 22, 2005 We agree, maybe I mis-spoke. What I meant to say was it highlights cell, phone, and cell phone, when it should only find cell phone. Bad search engine I guess. 888807[/snapback] Maybe it's looking in the whole thread instead of just a single post? Because a search on "phone" brings up many more responses than the "+cell +phone" search, so it has to be using slightly different criterea... Quote Link to comment
wiegie Posted July 23, 2005 Share Posted July 23, 2005 I hate the search function here. Quote Link to comment
rocknrobn26 Posted July 23, 2005 Share Posted July 23, 2005 I hate the search function here. 891476[/snapback] NOD!!! Quote Link to comment
wiegie Posted July 23, 2005 Share Posted July 23, 2005 Maybe it's looking in the whole thread instead of just a single post?891175[/snapback] Perhaps that is it--I still hate it. Quote Link to comment
AtomicCEO Posted July 25, 2005 Author Share Posted July 25, 2005 Boy, I really can't express how much this search function sucks. In Fusion we do our free-agency bidding in the forum. To make it easy to find the bidding threads, all official bid threads had "RFA - Player Name" in the title. BUT I CAN'T SEARCH FOR the term "RFA", because it doesn't have enough letters!!! So our entire naming convention for 2 years is shot. We can't isolate those threads any more. What is the point of that limitation? Is the system really that overwhelmed by search requests that you need to limit it? Or was that just a default setting that site admins can change? Quote Link to comment
Yukon Cornelius Posted July 25, 2005 Share Posted July 25, 2005 I hate the search function here. 891476[/snapback] Quote Link to comment
Puddy Posted July 25, 2005 Share Posted July 25, 2005 894009[/snapback] Sorry Yuke, but DMD can put the best state-of-the-art search functionality in the world and it isn't going to help if you can't spell. How does one search for a Yukon post anyway Quote Link to comment
Yukon Cornelius Posted July 25, 2005 Share Posted July 25, 2005 Sorry Yuke, but DMD can put the best state-of-the-art search functionality in the world and it isn't going to help if you can't spell. How does one search for a Yukon post anyway 894071[/snapback] whatch ill serch all posts for momotard......................... all get it PUDDY Quote Link to comment
AtomicCEO Posted July 27, 2005 Author Share Posted July 27, 2005 Just tried to find that thread where we were discussing a homemade mp3 player... But can I do a search on "mp3"? No no... of course not. Quote Link to comment
rocknrobn26 Posted July 27, 2005 Share Posted July 27, 2005 Just tried to find that thread where we were discussing a homemade mp3 player... But can I do a search on "mp3"? No no... of course not. 897379[/snapback] Try mp3* Quote Link to comment
AtomicCEO Posted July 27, 2005 Author Share Posted July 27, 2005 Try mp3* 897412[/snapback] You know what... that works in the basic search, but when I went into the advanced search and tried searching thread titles for "RFA*", it wouldn't let me do it. Quote Link to comment
rocknrobn26 Posted July 27, 2005 Share Posted July 27, 2005 Granted, the search engine is crapolla. I'm getting to the point of making a folder for good posts and then bookmarking them! Quote Link to comment
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