semifamous Posted December 3, 2003 Share Posted December 3, 2003 Is anyone trying to make searching the boards more google-like? If I search for "sticky notes" in quotation marks, there are no results found. If I search for sticky notes without quoation marks, I get results that have the word sticky, but not notes. Or I get results that have the word notes, but nothing about them being sticky. I also tried searching with the word AND between sticky AND notes. Still, some results have nothing about the word NOTES. When I put multiple words in the search box, it should NARROW the search results, not expand them. Search for sticky: 3 pages of results Search for notes: 4 pages of results Search for sticky notes.... SIX pages of results. This makes searching the boards very difficult. I just want to find a good free sticky notes program that uses global hotkeys. This also causes frustration among other members (read: MxxCon) when people DO search, but can't find the results because the searches include WAY TOO MUCH info that's not what they're looking for. Search needs to be fixed. I realize this isn't a Neowin.net thing and more of an IPB thing, but I was just wondering if anyone was actually doing something about it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Dorr Veteran Posted December 3, 2003 Veteran Share Posted December 3, 2003 https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?act=Search&mode=simple Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SOOPAH256 Posted December 3, 2003 Share Posted December 3, 2003 nice call timdorr ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
semifamous Posted December 3, 2003 Author Share Posted December 3, 2003 OK... I searched there for sticky notes And got this as one of the results: https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?act=...dpost&p=1422852 I see a stick, but no "sticky" on that page whatsoever. Does the search engine think "I know what you really mean you idiot. You spelled 'stick' wrong." ??? I don't understand. If you put in a bunch of words, you would expect to find less results. Searching in "Software Discussion and Assistance" sticky notes: 239 results sticky notes windows: 6994 I want to find threads or posts that contain ALL of the words I'm looking for (not necessarily in the same order) like Google does. When you add words to a Google search, you get fewer results, which makes finding the right page easier. That's what I really want. I'm just curious why it doesn't already work that way. It looks for each word separately instead of all of them. I want it to use AND, not OR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
semifamous Posted February 14, 2004 Author Share Posted February 14, 2004 Update: Searching is still just about impossible. Am I the only one who bothers to even try to search anymore? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rell Posted February 14, 2004 Share Posted February 14, 2004 Try this... https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?act=...ch&CODE=explain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Japlabot Posted February 14, 2004 Share Posted February 14, 2004 Searching News is worse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.... Posted February 14, 2004 Share Posted February 14, 2004 I guess I don't know. I never have problems searching. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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