Search is seriously broken
I went trying to find the thread we were talking about LIFX, and though "hm, surely I'm not spelling it wrong" or selecting an option wrong etc. Saying search is broken on the AGN page would be putting it politely. The 'Quick Search' side has never worked for me, but now today even the Advanced Search returns nothing.
As just an example search: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/97682/brokenagnsearch.png And yes, I've tried unchecking first post only (which comes back checked each time), I've tried this sample search as 'kick starter'... every search I do gets zero results. Fix it codey-one-kenobi... you're my only hope :( ... please :P |
08:59am 30/10/12 Permalink
Alternatively, try the following in google: site:ausgamers.com kickstarter
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09:29am 30/10/12 Permalink
What Nerf Lord says. I do this for every site and just assume the site's own search is crap, if it even has one.
In the case of AusGamers though, Google indexes it very very well. |
09:37am 30/10/12 Permalink
search is busted I tried using it the other day and nothing work
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08:13pm 30/10/12 Permalink
09:49pm 30/10/12 Permalink
what choo talkin about willis?
search works perfectly for me, must be a usar porblem http://members.optusnet.com.au/~c.broughton3/worksperfectly.jpg |
06:34am 31/10/12 Permalink
06:36am 31/10/12 Permalink
i think the problem is that quick search doesn't search threads only titles and maybe OPs (not sure).
But certainly a quick search on 'holler' doesn't return this thread, you need to then click on the "Advance Search" Search button, which defaults to 'message subject and body' to have it find this thread. |
01:17pm 01/11/12 Permalink
i think the problem is that quick search doesn't search threads only titles and maybe OPs (not sure).But certainly a quick search on 'holler' doesn't return this thread, you need to then click on the "Advance Search" Search button, which defaults to 'message subject and body' to have it find this thread.yeh, that is intentional |
01:37pm 01/11/12 Permalink
Does searching subject and body rape your servers or something?
I would have thought it would be better (and not violate the principle of least astonishment) to have a default search feature for a forum search the actual content of the forum? |
02:06pm 01/11/12 Permalink
Do you index search terms, or is it a query against the schema that stores the original data?
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03:01pm 01/11/12 Permalink
Makes it hard for ME to find what I'm looking for, title search isn't very useful TBH.
I'm usually looking for something someone said in a topic rather than something that was necessarily the title of the thread, especially when on a busy forum its necessary to combine / coerce similar topics into a single thread. It may be different for other people tho! |
03:03pm 01/11/12 Permalink
pretty sure people want to search threads hey.
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03:40pm 01/11/12 Permalink
