Search Forums

kelleyphd

Member
Joined
Jun 5, 2010
Messages
111
Reaction score
0
Location
Pennsylvania
Does anyone know why the search function doesn't seem to return any hits. If you type "qix" or "pcb" it returns no posts??

Thanks
Daniel
 
The search function on these forums absolutely sucks. If you search for someting youll have to sift thru about a thousand threads that have nothing to do with what you are searching for. Try putting quotation marks in your search and nothing comes up at all "most of the time". People on here wonder why the same crap gets posted over and over again, well this is why.

I've had far better luck searching on google. It usually point to threads in KLOV first anyhow. Google can find KLOV stuff faster and easier than KLOV. Yeah, I said it.
 
The search function on these forums absolutely sucks. If you search for someting youll have to sift thru about a thousand threads that have nothing to do with what you are searching for. Try putting quotation marks in your search and nothing comes up at all "most of the time". People on here wonder why the same crap gets posted over and over again, well this is why.

I've had far better luck searching on google. It usually point to threads in KLOV first anyhow. Google can find KLOV stuff faster and easier than KLOV. Yeah, I said it.

The real key is using the + sign. Pretty sure that tells the engine that the word must be included. Otherwise it just does any of the words and you get way too many results. I can usually find what I am looking for since I started prefixing every term with the plus sign. If you know the user ID of the poster or thread starter, use that too in the advanced search.
 
The only real gripe I have with the search function is that it doesn't allow you to search just the post BODY or TITLE. I'd say 3/4 of all game-related search results tend to be signature-related....
 
The only real gripe I have with the search function is that it doesn't allow you to search just the post BODY or TITLE. I'd say 3/4 of all game-related search results tend to be signature-related....

I agree that the signature hits suck! Didn't they make it so three letter searches worked? Could swear I was doing them. Pretty sure they enabled it after so many complaints. I need to do some checking... Maybe it is different per forum.

Edit: just tried the for sale section and I know I had been searching for Qix parts before. Now I need to find the thread where they said they would change it.
 
Last edited:
The only real gripe I have with the search function is that it doesn't allow you to search just the post BODY or TITLE. I'd say 3/4 of all game-related search results tend to be signature-related....

This in theory should only affect posts that were made under ubbthreads and imported into vbulletin. Signatures shouldn't be being indexed in any threads the last two years.

... Didn't they make it so three letter searches worked? Could swear I was doing them. Pretty sure they enabled it after so many complaints. I need to do some checking... Maybe it is different per forum.

3 letter searches got dropped during the server upgrade unintentionally and have now been restored in theory.
 
This in theory should only affect posts that were made under ubbthreads and imported into vbulletin. Signatures shouldn't be being indexed in any threads the last two years.



3 letter searches got dropped during the server upgrade unintentionally and have now been restored in theory.

Excellent! It was nice to be able to search for Qix stuff. :)
 
Back
Top Bottom