 SYNACKJust Firewall ItPremium,Mod
join:2001-03-05
Venice, CA
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ZyXEL
| How buggy is the DSLR forum search engine? Somehow, I can never really get the search engine to produce any meaningfull results. Maybe I am using it wrong:
»/sitesearch
Two examples:
search 1:
Search: netbios
Posted by: "blank"
Search in Forum: "Netgear/ZyXEL"
Search in: "all text"
========> three matches, all with word "netbios" in the topic.
search 2:
Exactly as above, except "Search in forum: "all""
========> more than 50 matches, at least 8 in Netgear/ZyXEL.
What is going on here? Why don't they show up in the first search? |
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 BradleyBad Graphics GhostPremium
join:2001-02-20
So Far Away | said by SYNACK:
Somehow, I can never really get the search engine to produce any meaningfull results.
I'm having the same problems. I usually give up and just try a Google search of the site. |
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 R2R NotPremium,MVM
join:2000-09-18
Long Beach, CA
kudos:1 | Ditto. It seems to take a lot of adjusting to dig up something. The above example is perfect for the problems I have -- obviously, that should NOT happen. |
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BradleyBad Graphics GhostPremium
join:2001-02-20
So Far Away | On the positive side, when the DSLR search does (did) work, it was a real speed demon compared to most UBB installations I've perused. I hope it can be fixed soon. There's a gold mine of good info that's just a little too hard to get at right now... |
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The forum search function is basically useless. I'll search for strings that I know are in threads, and get no matches.
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 CatSnakRIP Splashy - We miss youPremium
join:2001-05-06
Lakeside, CA | I did a search the other day just for S&G on a text string from one of my own posts and it came up blank. Whats up with that?
Hey Justin - can we get that fixed?
It would make using the forums a lot easier. It's a real pain to have to browse through all the threads to look for info on a subject that may not be stated clearly in the title.
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 EMartiCapricorn
join:2001-05-01
Corona, CA | reply to SYNACK
I agree, it doesn't seem to make much of difference if you search on title's or all text either. I've done searches on my own posts, for things that are in the title, with no returns, and these are recent posts ony a few days old. Google seems to do an OK job of finding posts, but it takes a little while for them to show up though. It also appears to have gotten a lot worse in the past two weeks. |
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EMartiCapricorn
join:2001-05-01
Corona, CA
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Dang double post
[text was edited by author 2001-06-10 12:28:05] |
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CatSnakRIP Splashy - We miss youPremium
join:2001-05-06
Lakeside, CA | reply to SYNACK
Thanks for the info Justin. That will make things easier knowing what combination of items we can use to search with. |
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 FutureMonKeep your Mitts off RMoneyPremium,ExMod 2002-05
join:2000-10-05
Seaside, CA | reply to Bobcat
said by Bobsled:
The forum search function is basically useless. I'll search for strings that I know are in threads, and get no matches.
I concur. Never works for me.
- FM
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 JerryC23Character Counts 40,41,43Premium,ExMod 1999-03
join:1999-10-08
Humble, TX
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Working better for me (I think) I used to be of the same opinion, but it seems to work very well for individual forums.
I'll go try the site search and come right back
YES - it IS working better - but there is only 147 people logged on now and it's Sunday morning and I'm pretty sure that we just finished w/ the house keeping chores around here.
Everything is much quicker than it was an hour ago.
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[text was edited by author 2001-06-17 05:56:39] |
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