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Re: Please no more
This is no reflection on Tom's dilemma with PMs, but I have spent an hour or two using the search function and it's the pits.
I mean just for starters it will not return ANY result for a word of 3 letters or less. This means that a search for ABS will give you zilch and a search for TPS the exact same result. It is not possible to make it return a selective result from a series of words, it will instead return every thread or every post [as requested] with EITHER or ANY of the words. It is not possible to request a Boolean return of information, by forcing it to return only results with all selected words rather than any of the selected words. It is not possible to search the How To forum, because that is not a true database, it is more like an album of pictures, and there is no search mechanism. In all of the various searches I ran to see what members could find, the commonest returns of results were of two types; zero results and 500 results. And at that I was using the advanced search, restricting it to posts from a particular member, or restricting it to return results from the Technical Forum only, for instance. I'm no expert in database administration but I strongly suspect that the search function is deliberately designed to be non selective, because a better search function would put more work, more load on the servers during searches. So the guys in Jelsoft probably opted to leave a crappy search function in place. But man oh man it seriously, seriously sucks. Joe
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Re: Please no more
use the "+" feature when searching to find common connection
use the "-" feature when searching to exclude word use the "your phrase here with quotes around it" feature when searching to find a phrase abs svx led cel egr hat off gas lsd
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Because I have just explained none of them will return restricted search results on this forum. In fact the unkindest cut of all; if you search our forums for the word SVX or svx, it invariably returns no results. Just how bad a search function can that be? Joe
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I blame Chris...
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GOOGLE svx
click on second option from top "test" the "+" function search "abs+light" they do work for GOOGLE and here
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Yes but the website itself is called subaru-svx.net, the other forum actually is svxworldforum.com...
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They do work for Google.
They don't work for here. I searched abs light here. Got 371 results I then searched abs+light. Whaddya know? Got 371 results. Thats because it is returning results only for the word "light", which, surprise surprise returns, you guessed it, 371 results! Those functions do not work with our search engine. You should check things out before you claim they will work, or before you assume the results you got are compiled in the way you expected.
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hey dave:
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you did NOT follow my directions NDIR you left out "" Showing results 1 to 25 of 219 Search took 1.99 seconds. Search: Key Word(s): "abs, light"
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It will not and does not work on this forum. To reiterate: Search parameters are search all open forums, thread titles only, at least 0 replies, any date, return in order of last posting date.
I don't know how you evaluate searches, but to me that indicates what I said above.
What would be very useful for members would be if we could configure the site so that the Google search engine could search the complete forum. If we could set that in place then all these useful functions for inclusion or exclusion would actually work, and members could run decent searches that would pull up a smaller number of more relevant results. Meanwhile with the search function we have in place you would probably be quicker just reading all the Technical forums back to day 1 to find your answers. Joe
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Kia ora Joe,
At long last you have experienced the frustration involved in ensuring that what has been posted is correct. Even when you personally have exact and physical evidence you have to hammer away at your subject. Congratulations for sticking with the facts. Great guns, Trevor
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no he wanted to post it up so it was searchable.
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