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Am I the only one having a lot more trouble with search since the change to the forums?
I've just done a search via advanced and keep getting results which have only ONE of my keywords.
I've tried using AND between the search terms, but it's still giving me the same result. There seems to be no option to 'match all words".
Please don't tell me that we can't do multi-keyword searches anymore?
This is being discussed on the moderators forum also: the search function only searches when the search terms have 4 chars or more. The forum admin tried to change the setting to something lower, so we'll be able to search things like "new rom", but it seems that vBulletin is ignoring the settings and the issue is being investigated... we'll try to have a "better" search as soon as it is "technically" possible
Cool - I'll see if I cant frame my search to use terms longer than 4 letters.
Thanks for the reply
There is also one other problem, when a post gets deleted then search will still find it however the user will not see the post (as it was deleted).
This to is being looked at.
Is it working? mine doesn't return any results.
mine neither!
Its defo broke!
yep, no more searching here either...
I think I broke it, I did a search for "install Vista on Pocket PC" then it stopped working...
Not to worry I found what I was looking for.
Thanks.
yep, very few results when searching. not very useful that way :-/
Any prevision when it will be fixed??
Yes, I just did a search and it only returned results going back to Feb. 11. It is a topic that has definitely been discussed prior to that. Guess I'll wait and hope it gets fixed.
http://www.google.co.uk/advanced_se...-developers.com&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&as_qdr=all
i sent this to the feedback form on the site many moons ago, but apparently nobody has taken notice.
Has anyone else noticed this??
If you are not logged in,
The quick search (click search so the box comes up with "show threads", "show posts", and advanced search options) is pointless.
If you try top search with it, you will alwasy receive an error. Because you have to answer the no spam question via the advanced search page. Whats the point of having the quick search in this case?
I propose the admin either gets rid of quick search (have it go right to advanced search), OR add a box in the quick search for the spam question .. for guests that aren't logged in.
I know it has frustrated me more than once!!
thanks for listening
Hi Guys,
We switched the search function on 12-02 as posted in news.
Could you give me some feedback on if this improved the search or not?
Concerning the nospam issue it should only be an issue for unregistered or not logged in users, if you have problems as a logged in user please let me know asap.
Greetz,
Flar
as just posted in the thread in news: search has been switched back too fulltext boolean which is what we we're using before, we're looking into other alternatives..
Greetz,
Flar
Ahh, great, thkx a lot for fixing it
Thanks for switching it back. It's much easier to find things again.
Ditto to the two opinions above me.
My opinion on other search options:
I frequently also use google site search to find posts on XDA.... I find it works very well for me (so well I have set up a keyword shortcut in firefox. All I hvae to do is type "xda " and the terms i am looking for in the address bar, and hit enter.)
this is what i used to type into the google box when I did it manually:
site:forum.xda-developers.com the keywords your looking for
This is especially true when I am looking for terms less than 3 characters, the normal search won't work.
Maybe you guys should consider offering direct access to a google site search in addition to the boolean?
(( An example is how Webmasterworld does it. They go two steps further with a yahoo and MSN. In fact, 3rd party is their only search system:
http://www.webmasterworld.com/searchform.cgi
))
well the forum search was working good for me yesterday..and today all i get is the Google search "Search XDA-Developers using Google" choice.. i like the older forum search..
am i doing something wrong?
ha! I thought they would use my suggestion in addition to, and not in place of, the normal search.
But just to confirm w/ the poster above me .. yes it seems that is the only search option now, your not doing anything wrong.
I dont mind using google search, in general it can find topics on here pretty good, but it has limitations.
For example, if the site search is turned off, you cant search individual threads. Some threads on here get VERY big, and without the "search this thread" function there are going to be plenty of questions asked and answered multiple times in each thread, which leads to annoyed people saying the question has already been answered, etc.
With that said, I really do hope the site search does come back for this reason.
i concur for the same reasons. +1 vote for that
i must be very unlucky but everytime i use the search i got this message:
Sorry, search is temporarily unavailable. Please try again in 10 minutes.
and i gonna sound stupid but where is the seach button within the thread.
because looking an information in a 100+ page thread is not so easy without search
if i cant find it then i guesss a lot of people and newbies won't, then you cant expect people to search before they posts
I dont see any announcements regarding the search feature being disabled, but it'd be my best guess that either there is some sort of maintenance going on, they may have disabled the search temporarily (it is a huge bandwidth killer), or least likely....a software error.
Either way, I am sure someone is aware......I'd just be patient.
(fwiw, I need the search feature too....but I can live with what I need the answer for....and I don't want to use any other forum but this one)
IIRC it's when the servers are getting overloaded, the search automatically gets disabled. This ensures the rest of the site doesn't go down.
If not, it might just be maintenance...
The google search will still be operational unless google goes down
silenius said:
looking an information in a 100+ page thread is not so easy without search
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How right you are!
silenius said:
where is the seach button within the thread.
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I've not noticed the "search this thread" button being unavailable before. Maybe you've had a different experience to me. On both the new and classic styles there's a "search this thread" button at the top of the first post on the page you're viewing. If it's not there for you then I bow out and leave it to someone who knows why to give you a better answer.
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What's wrong with it?
Think about your search query perhaps?
I have a throttle limit too on search People who find this an issue are probably not looking at the results generated - remember the options in advanced search, for whole post searching etc
You can also use google, forum search isn't great any way..
For Google:
Search item site:forum.xda-developers.com
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For example:
https://www.google.com/#sclient=psy...418bdb68383d95&biw=1280&bih=719&pf=p&pdl=3000
I only get this when searching inside a thread and not the whole forum; the whole forum search automagicly gets done via Google anyway.
The problem I have, that I guess the original poster is mentioning, is how can I specify to search in a specific thread in Google? I don't think you can which is why the 20 second wait can be a problem?
never had problem with that,
i think because of a huge amount of people connecting to this forum and if there wouldnt be that 20 second waiting time whole forum would be laggy....
my opinion dont punch me...
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I only get this when searching inside a thread and not the whole forum; the whole forum search automagicly gets done via Google anyway.
The problem I have, that I guess the original poster is mentioning, is how can I specify to search in a specific thread in Google? I don't think you can which is why the 20 second wait can be a problem?
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You cannot search a thread or subforum via Google. Limitation of how google lets you specify locations to search
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MuF123 said:
sometimes you can't remember what you want to search.
e.g. you want to find your own post where you mentioned something about "cpu throttling" (just for example).
but you can't remember what words did you use so you search for "cpu downscaling", "cpu underclocking", "cpu overheating", "cpu lower frequency", "cpu heat problem", "cpu throttling" YAY I found it.
and it would take me like 20 seconds in google, but under this limitations it would take like 3 minutes.
this limitation isn't encouraging users to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmvCpR45LKA&t=0m37s , just sayin'
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If you filtered by only posts from yourself, especially if you knew the thread, it should be quite easy.
It's a balancing act between performance and convenience. Some people hammer it constantly with nonsense. That's why you cannot search for silly stuff like "ROM".
We are working to improve search and something is in the pipelines. I can't give a date yet, but please know we know theres limitations in the current system and have been working to address them in a future rollout.
The search timer has been dropped to 15 seconds. We are within a week or so of having a new (and much improved) search system in place.
Hope that helps!
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15 seconds is already fast. other forums require you to wait up to a minute before the next search.
Good day XDA folks,
Let me start this thread by saying that I very much appreciate the great things made on XDA, keep up the good work, awesome community!:good:
I also want to say that I like the construction of this site in general: not bad, not bad at all... But there is one thing bothering me for some time now, and that thing just crossed the line:
What the **** is wrong with the search functions.
Really, I understand it might be hard to implement a good search function, but XDA has over 5 million members and I feel that a website with that many users has to meet certain standards. The search functions, however, are extremely lacking.
Let me give a few examples of this:
Do you know how, in the "you're a noob"-video of XDA, is mentioned that you have to search for already created threads before making a new one? I did that for this thread by searching the obvious term 'search' in the About xda-developers.com subforum. The amount of relevant results was mind-boggling low: of all 25 items on the first results page, there was one single thread with 'search' in it's title, and this hit was the two-but-last result. I have experienced this sort of search feature incompetence multiple times already, it happens in all subforums, even the very straight forward searches wouldn't give the result I desired.
OK, that's one thing, but only this kind of issue still isn't enough for me to create a thread about this: yes that's right, there's more, something worse. I wanted to go to my device's forum today so I searched for "xperia s" like i always do. Yes this always worked as expected, but not today, so I try to be more specific, I search "sony xperia s" but no, still no hit. Then I got a bit frustrated and typed the exact name of my mobile phone with quotation marks: ""Sony Xperia S"" and a decent-sized list of Xperia devices appeared below the searchbar, BUT IT DIDN'T INCLUDE XPERIA S. I tried other searches but no matter what I wouldn't be able to navigate to the Xperia S forums through the device search function. I have never used such a bad search function before and it makes me rage. So please, XDA, please tell me this is a bug, that it's going to improve, that this isn't supposed to happen.
Dear XDA-devs,
Fix pl0x.
And keep being awesome,
Cheers.
First this would be best addressed by Admins their contacts
just to advice you concerning how search works on XDA, from MY experience
when using " Device search" , just type x you would get a drop down menu based on that letter , imputing the other letters to form xperia would decrease the contents of the drop down menu , say you complete the word "xperia" the available devices will now be listed and from what I note , your device is not listed.
so its now best to quit that search and use the "All Forums search", now when I type xperia s. I also get a drop down menu with a number of items for xperia S, which you can select according to your choosing.
so its working better than before but not under device search but under all forums search.
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To be honest, I rarely use XDA's search function. I find it far easier to use Google and start the search string with "site:forum.xda-developers.com" followed by what I actually want to search for.
Normally far quicker and far more accurate than XDA's search tool, and far less likely to be down when you most need it.