Google doesn't have all the threads.

Search works remarkably well - as long as you are not searching for all posts by a user - AND - as long as your search term is somewhat unique

Tiesto is a bad search
Trance is a bad search
Tiesto Trance is a bad search
Tiesto Trance Disney is a better search
etc.

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Originally posted by verndogs just do this: go to google type site:tranceaddict.com on the search box and hit the search button it's faster than searching on TA

tranceaddict is supported by google

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Originally posted by josh4 as if that's a difficult accomplishment

http://rankings.big-boards.com/?filter=vBulletin,all

vBulletin forums run into speed issues after you pass about 2 million posts - feel free to go to any of those forums above. You'll find that they don't even have Search on the menu, or, when they do - most of them require you to register before you can search.

You can go to www.musicianforums.com/forums and try to do a search for music - it'll just return a php error.

Sorry, maybe I'm not in the mood for your anal sarcasm - but you should be aware that vB has always had problems with searches for popular terms - TAs search is better than most as it's extremely hacked and uses MySql's full text feature rather than vB's way of indexing.

TA's search has always worked more or less great for me. You just need to know how to define the searches.. People in threads complain all the time 'they tried the search and didn't find anything' but when i try to find the subject they are posting about, in 99.9% of the time i find the results he/she/they could have found as easily if just put some thought to it. There are many options to try when searching. Use them people!

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Originally posted by Swamper Google doesn't have all the threads.

how much of the TA forums are stored on google?

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Originally posted by verndogs how much of the TA forums are stored on google?

about 30-35%

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Originally posted by Swamper about 30-35%

ok...I take back what I said about using google

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Originally posted by Swamper Really? What exactly is wrong?

well i keep getting the:
** Note: Minimum search word length = 4 letters ** communicate

well now that i tried it works fine hmmm...

And google works even too good one time i wanted to search for something about Zabiela's upcomming album and found a roll call thread i've made (i which i did mention the album) and i was very much like

didn't you know?

don't ever mess with a man's search function.

sometimes when i search it comes up with no results and says "note searches must be longer than 4 letters" even when its alreay longer

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Originally posted by hadi ****** sometimes when i search it comes up with no results and says "note searches must be longer than 4 letters" even when its alreay longer

That's the default vB message - that is what it says when it finds no results - it will never find results if the search term is under 4 words - which is why there is a note: in front. I could always remove that part.

Swamper I just noticed you can no longer search by exact username. Is this removed for good? That was a useful search feature to me, especially for digging up old posts that I had made myself and needed to find.

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Originally posted by Magnus Swamper I just noticed you can no longer search by exact username. Is this removed for good? That was a useful search feature to me, especially for digging up old posts that I had made myself and needed to find.

It's gonna be gone for a while... 90% of the slowdowns on the forums were a result of searching for all posts by user. I would literally cancel those queries manually if I was online and I noticed the forums were stalled.

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Originally posted by Swamper It's gonna be gone for a while... 90% of the slowdowns on the forums were a result of searching for all posts by user. I would literally cancel those queries manually if I was online and I noticed the forums were stalled.

That makes sense. Maybe if there was a way to restict members to only looking up their own posts or something? Or they get like 1 search per day or something. I only ever used that feature on myself for finding posts several years old.

I've always had beef with the search function. Even when I put in phrases that I know exist, and search for thread titles that I've seen recently, it still comes up with nothing. Then after 10 minutes of searching manually I find the exact thread I was looking for.

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Originally posted by Swamper Tiesto Trance Disney is a better search etc.

LMAO!

"Search for all posts by this member" removed?

I noticed you can't search by username anymore and the option to search for all posts by one user from their profile has dissapeared. I used to use this option quite a lot, as it's the only way to find out when a user last posted and is a quick and easy way to find other posts by that user.Is it gone for good or is it temporary?

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Originally posted by aloep "Search for all posts by this member" removed?

no

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