Search Revisited

Thanks as ever arn.

Buuut, I was finding myself (as I do) and got no matches. Any reason why I can't find "jew"?

But you see, that's why it's so fast. It'll never find short terms, like "jew" or "mad jew" or "jsw" or "arn"... or "RAM", "CPU", "PPC", "duo", "OWC", "Mac", etc.

Okay, cool. Thanks for all the work arn.

Appreciated, thanks. I'm not finding it to be all that much slower, although I didn't play 'round with it much before you changed it back.

I was about to start a thread about the search function being broken. What did you switch, cause it sure isn't working for me know. I'm getting tonnes of incorrect results. Take a look for example.
I really doubt there's 120 threads with "nympsdfh asdklfuu ahhhhhh" in them, I would expect only 1, this one
Is it just searching for letters and not complete words now?
Is there something I need to change in my preferences to get it to search for the letters as complete words?

I think it is by default and "or" search. Therefor it is probably picking up the ahhhhhh as it is a common expression.

Thanks yippy, tried it again and it seems that's it. Gotta get rid of the "or"

Really, really, really don't like the new search
How do you use AND statements in it? It doesn't seem to work for me when I type in "blah AND blah"
Is this done another way?
Please let me know.

Thanks

arn said:

Not sure if you can. Did you actually prefer the old search?

arn

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I definitely prefer the old search from my "minor" use with both versions. I didn't use it that much, a couple of times a week, and I never had a problem with it, but I guess others were complaining about it. My brain works in the exclusive search mode, thus the old search mode worked much better for my already strapped neural resources.
I guess I can start using MRoogle instead (or just not search anymore )

Thanks for your hard work Arn! I will try it out too and see what happens. I found that with the old method, using site:macrumors.com on Google tended to provide more accurate results, but fewer results, and especially wasn't great for finding the newest posts. I got stumped, though, using the built-in forum search, trying to find threads I knew I'd posted in....

After a week or two of trying to get used to this new search feature, I'm really struggling. The two main issues I'm having:

1. Anything I search for, even things that should be pretty obscure, seem to return almost 500 hits, most of them with very little relevance. There have been a few times when I've been searching for something that I know I posted myself and have typed in a very close description, and either gotten no returned results or gotten so many that I couldn't go through all the results.

2. On the advanced search page, if I tell it to search only within thread titles, it returns many results that have only one of the terms, even if I add "AND" between the words.

Arn, as always, you do a great job with the site! But I think I'd rather have the old search back!

Yeah, the new search isn't finding everything for me either. It's a bit weird.

To be contrarian, I love the new search. I haven't tried any advanced features -- haven't used and or or. But it has allowed me to perform general searches more effectively than the "old" search.

BTT,

I do not see a link to a thread/tutorial showing exactly how the search function options work, what parameters are useful to get more relevant hits. Anyone?

And I still don't see anything from arn on this thread saying exactly what was changed from new to old? Can we get a revision number update thread going, to explain the differences .