The search button needs to be re-worked.

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Posted by Trazedict on May-01-2006 03:37:

The search button needs to be re-worked.

Yeah, I don't know where else to say this.
But goddamn, it's horrible at finding threads in the Tracklist section. In theory, it should be easier for it to come up with my search when I put in more words, but it seems as though the more precise I can get with my search, the more it tells me, in essence, to fuck off.

example:
I put in "porter relax recover" when trying to find Porter's set here. and the search came up with nothing. But I know it had all those words in the title, as I had visited that thread a couple times before. So I then proceeded to just type in "porter relax" and it brings up...wow!...1 match: a John Digweed thread.. Then I finally put in just "porter" and had to scroll through all the results to find the thread I was looking for.

So fundamentally speaking, why the hell isn't it bringing up the matches I query for? The thread obviously existed. So WTF? The search should be able to search properly, because, really, isn't that what its for? There are some major flaws with it.

So can I put in a request for some technical changes to the search engine to make it more accurate? It would really help out everyone I believe.

Thank you

Posted by Swamper on May-01-2006 19:12:

Blame the horrible title:

"Steve_Porter_-_Live_at_Rest_Relax_and_Recover_BBQ_(WMC)

Not only does it start with a quote, but, each word is separated by a _ which makes it all look like one word

Posted by Philby on May-15-2006 08:16:

on a similar note regarding search...

i just copied and pasted "Anton Chernikov" out of a thread to search for any other sets with tunes by this artist but there were no results. even though i actually copied & pasted exactly out of a thread...?

Posted by Swamper on May-15-2006 17:51:

I typed Chernikov just now in a search for 3 months and came up with a bunch of threads

Posted by Philby on May-17-2006 11:32:

i swear it wasn't working when i posted that..