Re: Search Breakage?
2015-07-28
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AudioGames . net Forum — Site and forum feedback : GeneWarner via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Search Breakage? Try this:If you are searching for a phrase, put quotes around it. I believe that if you do a multi word search without the quotes what you end up with are hits that contain any of the words you searched for. By putting quotes around your search term you are searching for that word group instead of a list of words.Just a thought, though from your descriptions, it does sound broken. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=225204#p225204 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Search Breakage?
Re: Search Breakage? I don't think the search is actually broken, as I said, I use it a lot myself. there is however an issue with the phrase Windows xp for some reason. I just tried windows xp with various capitalizations, quotation marks etc, and got nothing, but tried turn based rpg and got a hole bunch. This suggests to me that the search is working, but there is perhaps something specific in the PunBB code about searching for information on Windows versions. Whether this is an anti spam measure, or whether as with spelling out the numerals there is a less obvious way to search I don't know, as I said I use the search a lot myself and haven't had issue with it, equally your correct on windows being an odd subject which seems to imply that there is some sort of exception going on. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=225225#p225225 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Search Breakage?
Re: Search Breakage? Very weird! I'd've thought multiple words would simply be equivalent to a search with each word individually, sorted by relevance.But, although the numerals hypothesis is an interesting idea, the phrase "Windows XP" (with correct caps) also returned nothing for me. So something seems a bit out of kilter somewhere, or the forum just doesn't want anybody to know about Windows releases. A perfectly reasonable defensive measure. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=225208#p225208 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Search Breakage?
Search Breakage? Search appears to be totally hopeless with pretty much any multi-word search (any query that contains a space).E.g.: try searching for "Windows 10" and you get no hits, even though this forum has abundantly discussed that OS by now.Any info? Perhaps the PunBB update broke something ... URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=225180#p225180 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Search Breakage?
Re: Search Breakage? I've just done a couple of experiments and there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with spaces, I tried choice of games and got lots of results as I would expect, indeed I often use multi word searches myself when looking stuff up on the forum. It does however seem the search has an issue with numerals, and unless you right numbers as letters weerdly enough you don't get any hits, sinse I tried searching or windows 10 (ie, 1 0), and got nothing, but then tried windows ten (ie t e n), and got a hole bunch of stuff including people who'd written windows 10 as 10. I tried the same with windows eight and got the same result, loads for windows e i g h t, but none with windows 8. I also don't think capitalization matters on searches, though I could be wrong on that.Most whacky. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=225188#p225188 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
