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Post by Slinger on Sept 1, 2018 18:45:06 GMT
It can't just be me, surely?
I wanted to add to the "The TV Drama Thread" thread, so I typed "Drama" into the search window, hit enter, and it came back with five pages. The thread I required was on (you guessed it) the fifth page. It was also the only result that actually contained the word "Drama." This happens all the time.
Sometimes I will type a word which I know is a part of the title of a thread I'm looking for and get no results returned at all. I then type another word from the thread I'm trying to find and up pop sixteen pages and somewhere amongst them is the thread I'm looking for, but nowhere near the start and 99% of the rest of the results bear no relation to what I'm looking for and have typed in.
It's more like a lucky dip than a search facility.
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Post by MikeMusic on Sept 1, 2018 19:34:32 GMT
I've had some 'features' I thought were only applicable to me.
Search can be odd.
I nearly always search on threads only
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Post by MartinT on Sept 2, 2018 9:56:24 GMT
I try the overall search and search on threads. The latter tends to be more successful but sometimes, like you, I've got to do some hunting for it. Not the best search engine out there, I'll agree.
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Post by ChrisB on Sept 2, 2018 10:13:29 GMT
I would agree that the word 'crap' is appropriate in this instance!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2018 20:58:22 GMT
It's more like a lucky dip than a search facility.  |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2018 22:05:48 GMT
It reminds me of this:
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Post by Stratmangler on Sept 7, 2018 10:59:55 GMT
I think the search facility works just fine. It would help if folks bothered learning how to use the thing  |
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Post by Slinger on Sept 7, 2018 11:46:41 GMT
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Post by Stratmangler on Sept 7, 2018 11:51:54 GMT
I used "cock" as a search term, and it brought up a shedload of Tony's cock wombling comments, so search looks to work fine from here. Which means it has to be a user issue.
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Post by Slinger on Sept 7, 2018 12:15:53 GMT
Did you try the search I detailed in my original post?
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Post by Stratmangler on Sept 7, 2018 12:18:14 GMT
"Voda" did the same - shedloads on Tony's cockwombling comments.
Smelling pistakes would be problematic (although in this case they're not spelling mistakes, as it's a Spoonerism). Schennanigans brings up nothing, coz (a) it's a misspelled word (b) nobody here has misspelled it yet. Shenanigans does bring up plenty of incidences.
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Post by Slinger on Sept 7, 2018 12:24:05 GMT
Did you try the search I detailed in my original post? |
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Post by Stratmangler on Sept 7, 2018 12:32:01 GMT
I did do a search using drama as the search term, and it came up instantaneously with 50 pages of everywhere in the forum those four letters arranged in that order appear, so there's nowt wrong with the search facility.
In answer to your question, yes it is you.
If you had put TV as a search it would have taken you straight to the TV Drama thread, and before you respond that the search doesn't support 2 character searches take note that I typed "TV " (I hit the space bar after typing TV) and then did a search, and it took me straight to the TV Drama thread.
The issue is a user issue.
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Post by Slinger on Sept 7, 2018 13:00:19 GMT
It does not search on thread titles first. There is no separate option to search only thread titles. If it was searching on titles first "Drama" would be at the top of the list, not buried 5 pages down.
I've set up enough databases in the past, and written enough SQL, to feel perfectly justified in calling it crap.
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Post by MikeMusic on Sept 7, 2018 13:26:11 GMT
I can search and find what I want.
Sometimes I cannot find what I want with Search.
If I give the time I cant trawl through page after page
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Post by MartinT on Sept 7, 2018 13:43:37 GMT
I don't know about the search, but this thread is highly entertaining!
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Post by Stratmangler on Sept 7, 2018 20:50:28 GMT
It does not search on thread titles first. There is no separate option to search only thread titles. If it was searching on titles first "Drama" would be at the top of the list, not buried 5 pages down. I've set up enough databases in the past, and written enough SQL, to feel perfectly justified in calling it crap. What happens when you enter the search terms in the correct box?
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Post by MartinT on Sept 7, 2018 20:58:37 GMT
I believe that's one-nil Time for a <facepalm>? |
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Post by Stratmangler on Sept 7, 2018 21:35:23 GMT
I picked up my new specs yesterday, otherwise I'd have probably missed that box. |
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Post by MartinT on Sept 7, 2018 21:55:40 GMT
To be fair to Paul, search seems variable from one use to the next. Sometimes an obvious keyword cannot be found when I can see it right there.
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