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10-29-2006, 11:49 AM #1Web Hosting Guru
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I'm afraid to use SEARCH here!
Hi, sorry for the topic but please forgive me, I'm an honest WHT fan, however has been afraid to use Search in here..
I can't remember since when, but the search here has been TOO difficult and VERY inefficient. I'm sorry about it, when you want to search for multiple words, for example to search for best free forum, the more words you input, the more inefficient it would be, you can't search like on other VB based forums to use a word "AND" or an addition mark "+" to include all the keywords you want to search, neither to match the exact phrase, but just no matter how/what you input, every time it will ONLY work as "OR", including to search with quotation marked, like "best free forum software", it will return the same result even you search with following ways:
- best AND free AND forum AND software
- best OR free OR forum OR software
- best, free, forum, software
- etc...
Is there anywhere I've made mistake or that the administrator decides to use a such search solution? I found this difficult since about 1 month ago, and now I'm afraid to search the forum, when I want to search for how people were discussing about free forum softwares, when I input "free" and "forum" into the search box, I just found all threads which have the word "free", including most of them are are about "free hostings", but mostly none about "free forum". Sounds like to find a needle from the sea...
Sorry for my english, and sorry for this topic.
I wish WHT would be better and easier for us to use, and be happy to stay.
Thanks for your time.
TT
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10-29-2006, 12:00 PM #2Disabled
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I agree. You guys should add an option next to the search menu which allows for a user to search for any word or match all words that they type in.
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10-29-2006, 02:18 PM #3Retired Moderator
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the advanced search (search type: boolean) isn't suitable?
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10-29-2006, 02:30 PM #4Retired Moderator
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Originally Posted by CD Burnt
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10-29-2006, 02:44 PM #5Web Hosting Guru
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Originally Posted by CD Burnt
They really need to put some words beside it, I know it's my own problem though, that my limited knowledge... 'boolean' was just 'yes' or 'no', '1' or '0' in my brain.. lol
I assume there might be more people having the same concept (probably no concept) regard this 'boolean' search.
Anyway, thanks for your info! cheers!
TT
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10-29-2006, 04:53 PM #6antitheistic atheist
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I've also noticed that the search is fairly inefficient a good amount of the time - the advanced search feature usually works fine for me, but the basic search usually ends up with 50 pages related to something extremely specific.
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10-29-2006, 06:13 PM #7Dennis Johnson
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Originally Posted by ttk_2k
Maybe we can get it ticked as default for members.There is no best host. There is only the host that's best for you.
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10-29-2006, 08:26 PM #8Web Hosting Master
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Maybe an idea for iNet (or whoever their owner is) could be:
http://www.google.com/enterprise/mini/
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10-30-2006, 08:05 AM #9Web Hosting Guru
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Originally Posted by SoftWareRevue
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10-30-2006, 09:14 AM #10Dennis Johnson
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Originally Posted by ArtashesThere is no best host. There is only the host that's best for you.
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10-30-2006, 09:25 AM #11Disabled
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Originally Posted by ttk_2k
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10-30-2006, 02:52 PM #12Web Hosting Master
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Instead of iNET forking out loads of money on a Google Mini, you could simply use the following link:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=sit...ostingtalk.com
Then add your search terms to the end - easy I quite often use this method for searching forums, as most search features in forum software really are inadequate (including vB), although in turn that's a reflection on the speed of searching a MySQL database.
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10-31-2006, 06:17 PM #13Web Hosting Master
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shockuk, often not all pages are crawled and indexed by Google, so relying on that remote search option represents potential gaps in the quality of search.
Best,
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11-01-2006, 02:05 PM #14the advanced search (search type: boolean) isn't suitable?
Proof:
Go to search (natural or boolean, doesn't matter)
Search for my domain for example (in my profile, don't really want to spamvertise it here)
In natural, you get 101 pages of stuff, same with boolean, over 1/2 of which my domain is not mentioned. The other half it is.
Before the v3 upgrade, this wasn't a problem, but now it is a huge one. Customers wanting to do a "search" on a domain get mixed results at best.Tom Whiting, WHMCS Guru extraordinaire
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11-01-2006, 03:27 PM #15Web Hosting Master
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Originally Posted by ttk_2k
Like if I want to search for a thread containing the words - "Converse" and also "Vans", do I just type "Converse AND Vans" as the keywords?
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11-04-2006, 09:14 AM #16Web Hosting Guru
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Originally Posted by YUPAPA