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[Zman21295]

Hey guys, I love the new look, options and features of the site.

Just, everything that needed to be there is there and is doing awesome!

The only thing that sucks is: The search!!!! I search for a phrase like "nivida gtx 460" and the forum turns back no results. However if i search "site:insanelymac.com nividia gtx 460" I get the results i am looking for.

Before you say it: Yes, I have change the little drop down in the search to forums.

I really hope the search gets better, as a web developer I know how frustrating it can be to get things working properly.

But all in all great job guys!

[iPoco]

Thanks for the feedback .

I'm not having any trouble with that search when I try. It returns 108 results (see attached screenshot). Can you attach a screenshot and the URL of the page?

Poco

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[buoo]

I thought it was only a problem of mine!
I'm having some problems to find that I need, infact i prefer to use Google.




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[Zman21295]

iPoco, on 04 January 2012 - 10:22 PM, said:

Thanks for the feedback .

I'm not having any trouble with that search when I try. It returns 108 results (see attached screenshot). Can you attach a screenshot and the URL of the page?

Poco

I am sorry, You are right... its "GTX 460" that returns no results... however, even searching nvidia GTX 460 turns out mostly non relevant results

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I have tried searching Powermac g5 and more irrelevant junk than good reading.

[iPoco]

From what I can see MySQL is setup to only index words 4 characters and longer. I've updated our forum configuration to match to stop confusion, but contacting our host to look into allowing shorter searches as they are quite useful here.

@buoo: Unlike Google we don't sort by relevancy . Your second search hit the problem above and will give only results with "universal".

Poco

[Zman21295]

Thanks for your help! That is crazy that your SQL database is only cacheing words with more than 3 letters.

I took a look in one of my databases for a forum I run and the search_data not sure of yours is the same, caches any word with more than two letters and all numbers.

IE GTX, 460, the etc.....