Problem with *Forum* Search function
Posted: 12.02.2010, 07:40
There seems to be something broken in the search engine. Many (maybe most?) searches give either incomplete or NO results.
For example, I was looking for the following thread, which I had remembered reading (and finally found a copy I had saved to my hard-drive)
viewtopic.php?p=5109#5109
using search terms of blinking and/or Vista and/or manifest did NOT give a hit for this thread.
+ blinking + Vista got this
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=244&hilit=+blinking ... dd64abaa80
manifest only got
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=221&hilit=manifest& ... dd64abaa80
and
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=665&p=1680&hilit=ma ... aa80#p1680
just for a test, try doing a search for "guide" and see what you get. I know that I posted at least three threads with the word Guide in the title, and none of them come up on Search.
So, if we keep seeing the same questions repeated again and again, maybe part of the reason is that the poster can't find their answer by using Search.
Is this a fixable problem? A bug in phpBB software?
Thanks for your time.
granny
For example, I was looking for the following thread, which I had remembered reading (and finally found a copy I had saved to my hard-drive)
viewtopic.php?p=5109#5109
using search terms of blinking and/or Vista and/or manifest did NOT give a hit for this thread.
+ blinking + Vista got this
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=244&hilit=+blinking ... dd64abaa80
manifest only got
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=221&hilit=manifest& ... dd64abaa80
and
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=665&p=1680&hilit=ma ... aa80#p1680
just for a test, try doing a search for "guide" and see what you get. I know that I posted at least three threads with the word Guide in the title, and none of them come up on Search.
So, if we keep seeing the same questions repeated again and again, maybe part of the reason is that the poster can't find their answer by using Search.
Is this a fixable problem? A bug in phpBB software?
Thanks for your time.
granny