Author Topic: Search function of this forum (Read 3631 times)

Anchakor

Search function of this forum sucks... I used string "donation item stats" and was looking for the Fizzle's thread named "Donation items, stats" and it was on 2nd page of the search while on 1st page was mostly rubbish...

smacky

Hm, change to search for all terms and that thread is the third hit (now this one is first).

Frostyglen

hehe...just noticed the top line of your siggy :oops:

Yup, noticed that too Anch...usually have to dig for what I'm lookin' for

Anchakor

Quote from: "smacky"

Hm, change to search for all terms and that thread is the third hit (now this one is first).

hmm dunno if for you, but for me it shows 5 results and none is the one I looked for...

longir

unfortunately the heuristics of search engines are limited to what you tell it instead of what you really mean. If they were as good as what we want, you could type into google tecra8100 win2k drivers and it would open the proper page automatically.

Onired

I dont even think this site needs a search function. In my opinion, its not big enough for one. Of course my opinion doesnt matter according to everybody.

Unislash

Heh, the search function is very, very useful, onired.

Unislash

Onired

Quote from: "Unislash"

Heh, the search function is very, very useful, onired.

Unislash

Oh im not saying i doubt it one bit! Im just saying I can find stuff pretty fast just looking through the posts manually.

ThePlaneskeeper

i do agree that the search function could be a bit more useful, is there any way to get a better search engine for the wesite, or would that be a silly thing to investigate?

longir

iirc the search engine is part of the forums module. Perhaps an eventual upgrade of pnphpBB2 (or replacement with an improved forum module) will include in it a better search engine.

selfmade

i was having a problem with the search function. When you perform a search and then choose an entry in the result list and after that want to return to the list with the "back" option of your browser there is a message on a white screen "site is no longer available". If you want to get the list again and choose another entry you have to do the search all over again. Thats kinda annoying.

longir

hmmmm sounds more like a browser settings issue (probably IE 7 on XP or Vista?) or Norton Internet Security (or similar program) with browsing history being cleared. No problem with firefox (on linux or windoze) or ie6 that I've had (and I just did that yesterday).

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