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Search really is broken
Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2003 8:08 pm
by Zxeses
Go to search.
Now type in Fish.mac
press the search button. What do you get? I got 1088 messages, and if any of them contained the term fish.mac, it certainly was not obvious.
Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2003 8:40 pm
by ap50
My immediate guess would be that it's using the . in .MAC as a seperator and is searching for either FISH or MAC
Though my .MAC search came up as 1060 and FISH came up with 101, so go figure...
Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2003 10:06 pm
by dont_know_at_all
72
Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2003 11:22 pm
by Bio_War
got 53 here
Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2003 5:15 am
by loadingpleasewait
1098
Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2003 5:54 am
by EqMule
Search found 54 matches
and fish with fishermans companion was the second hit on the list... I used fish.mac and search for all terms to get this result...
Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2003 3:06 pm
by Zxeses
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Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2003 3:06 pm
by Zxeses
Ok, so "fish AND mac" works great.
Now, can we have the "." (period) problem fixed? Or at least, document it on the search page so that those of us who read docs will know what to expect?
Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2003 4:49 pm
by TheColonel
It's a forum search utility... a fairly standardized thing.... not sure if it would be wise to change it... thenpeople like me who are used to the standard would get ownz0red.
Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2003 9:08 pm
by Elric
The "." is a search parameter.
Just like if you used google and you put "The Hand"&"The Fist" .. It would only show pages with those two phrases in them, respectively.
It is something parsed through the PHP handler on the server, and was meant to be there.
Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2004 11:51 am
by Zelker
Any reason why a search for "time" comes up empty?
At least a search for "search" worked. :? .
-z
Edit: tried some others.
"zone" works and so does "zoner"
"sear" as in search, does not work, "search" does work.
"time" does not work, but "timer" does works. "$time(h):$time(m)" does'nt work either.
/boogle