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| quote: | Originally posted by DJ RJT
Case in point: I just spent 5 minutes trying to search for "Kosmas" in the title of posts made over the last 3 months, year, 2005, etc. No results, ever.
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Search for items including these words: kosmas
Search Options:Search Titles Only
Search for posts from: 2005 only
= Result
If do another search for the past 2 weeks you'll see the other thread you mentioned.
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ RJT
Yes, it's well established that TA's search function is absolute shit - It's easily the worst search engine I have ever used, and rarely functions for any good. |
Strong words there. Well established? How exactly? The search on TA outperforms any vbulletin installation out there with this many posts - however, it's important to note that search scalability has long been an issue with vB and admins of larger forums either archive posts after a year or limit searches only to registered users (due to the massive load (I/O heavy) a search requires). TA Search is custom - you will be very hard pressed to find a 'Search all posts by user' or 'search within this thread' that is as fast on another vb forum with over 6 million posts.
The search is actually very powerful - it is a boolean search - and you have tons of options - searching by 'exact phrase',excluding posts if certain words are in the body/title - 'optionally containing these words' meaning to add a certain weighting to search results so posts/threads containing those words are given a higher rank when the query goes through.
I'll cut/paste some examples from the mysql page of what boolean search can do - ignore the + and - below since the boxes on TA search automatically put these in after you submit your search
* '+apple +juice'
Find rows that contain both words.
* '+apple macintosh'
Find rows that contain the word “apple”, but rank rows higher if they also contain “macintosh”.
* '+apple -macintosh'
Find rows that contain the word “apple” but not “macintosh”.
* '+apple ~macintosh'
Find rows that contain the word “apple”, but if the row also contains the word “macintosh”, rate it lower than if row does not. This is “softer” than a search for '+apple -macintosh', for which the presence of “macintosh” causes the row not to be returned at all.
* 'apple*'
Find rows that contain words such as “apple”, “apples”, “applesauce”, or “applet”.
* '"some words"'
Find rows that contain the exact phrase “some words” (for example, rows that contain “some words of wisdom” but not “some noise words”).
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ RJT
There's a thread less than a week old with Kosmas Epsilon in the title in CD Review NR Discussion. Clearly something is fucked. |
Yes, it is. Searches relative to the current date appear to have broke yesterday - I blame the auto-update of perl which messed up the mysql library which in turn broke the nightly creation of the search databases for (1 week/2 weeks/1 month/3 months/6 months/a year ago)
| quote: | install_driver(mysql) failed: Can't load '/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/auto/DBD/mysql/mysql.so' for module DBD::mysql: libmysqlclient.so.10: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/DynaLoader.pm line 229.
at (eval 2) line 3
Compilation failed in require at (eval 2) line 3.
Perhaps a required shared library or dll isn't installed where expected
at /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqlhotcopy line 178 |
I just fixed it now - all is back to normal.
| quote: | Originally posted by Salegon
I sometimes get the "the word you're looking for is less than 4 letters"-message although the expression I'm looking for has got 6 letters or more....... |
Sorry - no matches. Please try some different terms.
** Note: Minimum search word length = 4 letters **
I guess that could be worded better - but - the 'Note' is there as a reminder that words under 4 letters in length will not come up in searches - it is simply too intensive to have search enabled for words that small.
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