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Maybe it's just me, but I tell you the search engine here at Neowin is a Total joke!!!

When I search for something, I gets of result got absolutely NOTHING to do with what I am looking for.

I am annoyed, frustrated, and like to ask if ANY way you can improve the accuracy of search engine here?

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Yeah it happens to me. Which is why I use the google bar regularly. He means that when you use the Forum Search for something you want to know, unrelated topics would come up and few to no topics that relate to what you are searching for are buried in the list. This is what I experience when using the search feature.

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i don't like this search

https://www.neowin.net/search.php

the back button is not functioning for going back to the search form after searching and there is no search field in the same page of the search results.

There is an option to search in articles, but it brings up

There seems to have been a slight problem with the database.

Please try again by pressing the refresh button in your browser.

We apologise for any inconvenience

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I too have found IPB's search feature a little lacking, but keep in mind that it puts some strain on the server, with a 2GB+ database and all. I find it more useful to just use Google and have neowin.net in the search.

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yep. the search function ain't very helpful sometimes. i use the neowin search plugin for firefox. but it isnt very helpful aswell.

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yep. the search function ain't very helpful sometimes. i use the neowin search plugin for firefox. but it isnt very helpful aswell.

I thought the Firefox Extension was only meant to search news?

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WMP10+Radio

What exactly are you looking for? It seems to me the search engine gives you the right results when you use that input.

It gives all posts with "WMP10" and all posts with "Radio"

I admit there's no good guide on how to use the search engine

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+
    A leading plus sign indicates that this word must be present in every row returned. 

-
    A leading minus sign indicates that this word must not be present in any row returned. 

(no operator)
    By default (when neither + nor - is specified) the word is optional, but the rows that contain it will be rated higher. This mimics the behavior of MATCH() ... AGAINST() without the IN BOOLEAN MODE modifier. 

> <
    These two operators are used to change a word's contribution to the relevance value that is assigned to a row. The > operator increases the contribution and the < operator decreases it. See the example below. 

( )
    Parentheses are used to group words into subexpressions. Parenthesized groups can be nested. 

~
    A leading tilde acts as a negation operator, causing the word's contribution to the row relevance to be negative. It's useful for marking noise words. A row that contains such a word will be rated lower than others, but will not be excluded altogether, as it would be with the - operator. 

*
    An asterisk is the truncation operator. Unlike the other operators, it should be appended to the word. 

"
    A phrase that is enclosed within double quote (`"') characters matches only rows that contain the phrase literally, as it was typed. 

The following examples demonstrate some search strings that use boolean full-text operators:

'apple banana'
    Find rows that contain at least one of the two words. 

'+apple +juice'
    Find rows that contain both words. 

'+apple macintosh'
    Find rows that contain the word ``apple'', but rank rows higher if they also contain ``macintosh''. 

'+apple -macintosh'
    Find rows that contain the word ``apple'' but not ``macintosh''. 

'+apple +(>turnover <strudel)'
    Find rows that contain the words ``apple'' and ``turnover'', or ``apple'' and ``strudel'' (in any order), but rank ``apple turnover'' higher than ``apple strudel''. 

'apple*'
    Find rows that contain words such as ``apple'', ``apples'', ``applesauce'', or ``applet''. 

'"some words"'
    Find rows that contain the exact phrase ``some words'' (for example, rows that contain ``some words of wisdom'' but not ``some noise words''). Note that the `"' characters that surround the phrase are operator characters that delimit the phrase. They are not the quotes that surround the search string itself.

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What exactly are you looking for? It seems to me the search engine gives you the right results when you use that input.

It gives all posts with "WMP10" and all posts with "Radio"

I admit there's no good guide on how to use the search engine

No, it gives all the other craps I don't want in the result also.

BTW, WMP10 radio isn't the only one, I search all kinds of keywords and have the SAME complaint.

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I'd like to fix this but I need your help.

Can you give me a topic number that doesn't contain either radio or WMP10 when you search for WMP10+Radio?

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+

? ?A leading plus sign indicates that this word must be present in every row returned.

-

? ?A leading minus sign indicates that this word must not be present in any row returned.

(no operator)

? ?By default (when neither + nor - is specified) the word is optional, but the rows that contain it will be rated higher. This mimics the behavior of MATCH() ... AGAINST() without the IN BOOLEAN MODE modifier.

> <

? ?These two operators are used to change a word's contribution to the relevance value that is assigned to a row. The > operator increases the contribution and the < operator decreases it. See the example below.

( )

? ?Parentheses are used to group words into subexpressions. Parenthesized groups can be nested.

~

? ?A leading tilde acts as a negation operator, causing the word's contribution to the row relevance to be negative. It's useful for marking noise words. A row that contains such a word will be rated lower than others, but will not be excluded altogether, as it would be with the - operator.

*

? ?An asterisk is the truncation operator. Unlike the other operators, it should be appended to the word.

"

? ?A phrase that is enclosed within double quote (`"') characters matches only rows that contain the phrase literally, as it was typed.

The following examples demonstrate some search strings that use boolean full-text operators:

'apple banana'

? ?Find rows that contain at least one of the two words.

'+apple +juice'

? ?Find rows that contain both words.

'+apple macintosh'

? ?Find rows that contain the word ``apple'', but rank rows higher if they also contain ``macintosh''.

'+apple -macintosh'

? ?Find rows that contain the word ``apple'' but not ``macintosh''.

'+apple +(>turnover <strudel)'

? ?Find rows that contain the words ``apple'' and ``turnover'', or ``apple'' and ``strudel'' (in any order), but rank ``apple turnover'' higher than ``apple strudel''.

'apple*'

? ?Find rows that contain words such as ``apple'', ``apples'', ``applesauce'', or ``applet''.

'"some words"'

? ?Find rows that contain the exact phrase ``some words'' (for example, rows that contain ``some words of wisdom'' but not ``some noise words''). Note that the `"' characters that surround the phrase are operator characters that delimit the phrase. They are not the quotes that surround the search string [i]*saves for future reference*[/i]aves for future reference*

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recently ,these days,

the searching function page is really sluggish,like the computer dieing.

but while this time ,i right click other website ,it is okay!!!!

i think and suspicion must the web page have somethingwrong.

it must be something wrong with the searching function!!!!!!!!

my friends ,do you think so???

at you computer ,you discover this phenomenon ????

or maybe my computer is damn it???

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i have discovered this phenomenon for 2 weeks.

what do i do?

what shoud i do???

perhaps this phenomenon ,such things happen about web site from time to time?

time to time.

By the way,

Took the words right of my mouth,i really love and crazy about this forum.

there is some shortcoming,i can forgive it.

my dear moderators,

try your best to make it ,repair it.try ,try again.

see you soon.

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