MRoogle

This is a really good idea. What is the chance it can be put next to the search already in the forums? I don't really know how editable vBulletin is.

 

sweet, ill be using it, just out of curiousity, i usually search by thread title, anyway to add that in there or is that only a feature of vbulliten?

 

Thats why I think it should go next to the search already up there (if possible). It shouldn't replace it.

 

Hmmm. It looks nice, but I'm not sure how accurate it is - I only got 186 hits on "Keira."

 

And there is only 120 hits though the vBulletin search.

 

True, but that's threads in the past 90 days that have mentioned her. Do a search by posts in the past year (like the servers need the extra load, I know) and it's at least 500 (that's all it will show).

Perhaps the Google search is also time-limited somehow, or only has access to recent posts, since it started crawling the site.

Edit: e - don't get me wrong, it's a sweet tool to have, especially since it's fast and doesn't bog the servers down using it. And it's a nice "mirror" of the real Google experience. Now, if only it would open the Google results in a frame, so we could continue to enter searches in the MRoogle form.

 

I searched with "any date" and get 120. What amy I doing wrong?

 

You are searching by thread, and not by posts. So you get a result of 120 threads containing the word "Keira" even though within those threads could be 10,000 posts referencing Keira.

When searching, have it show results as posts.

 

Thanks a lot. I get it now. Today I learned something new.

 

Probably right. I guess you need to write something for Safari to replace the Google search bar with a MRoogle search bar

 

Nice work, man. It's really fast and thorough.

 

Yes... you've reduced the number of already-answered-but-didn't-search-for-it newbie question threads by... er... are you sure it's had 6,500 visits?

 

How do you say it?

I'm stuck. I want to advertise by word of mouth to all my friends about the greatness that is MRoogle. So is it M-R-oogle? M-Roogle? Or simply a slurred MRoogle, perhaps MuhRoogle?

 

Is there a link to it on the site apart from your signature edesignuk?

 

if not, there should be

 

It's the only thing I use to search the forums. I have it in my bookmarks bar under the Macrumors bat.

 

It really should be accompanying the regular search feature so that newbies can find it easier.

Please don't fix that typo. It is a typo, right?

 

haha, whoops!

Ok i wont , and yes it is a type. Believe it or not I do not have a macrumors bat!