Why does the "search" feature blow?

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exactly the title, why does it blow? When I do searches for example the "the all I gotta" thread that I can't remember totally but remember few words, or I just wanna jump straight to it to post. You put in the majority of words in the field(yes I've also tried the different ways to search)and sometimes I've even type out completely exactly The All I Gotta Say.. and the results are whatever they are and after scrolling through dozens I finally see the TAIGS thread and then jump to it. That's just a true example, other searches are the same most the time, gotta scroll a tad or less or more to get the hit. After typing exact phrases and titles for searching, the very first result should be the one, no? Is there a way to filter or hone the search capabilities to be more precise when one searches? Look at me becoming a @meketrefe now suggesting forum software issues..that's it, I'm taking a hiatus from this forum till this is issue is fixed.:eek:
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4excal said:
Why, you're telling me your searches always give you the first hit is your what you're searching for here?
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Maybe not the first hit, but I it finds what I'm looking for. I think it would help if we all started tagging our threads more, I don't but will start from now on. @NYGuns, @NirvanaFan, @HEX, is it possible to retroactively add tags to old threads you had created? If so how? This would proly help the search function a lot.
 
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Podmonkey said:
Maybe not the first hit, but I it finds what I'm looking for. I think it would help if we all started tagging our threads more, I don't but will start from now on. @NYGuns, @NirvanaFan, @HEX, is it possible to retroactively add tags to old threads you had created? If so how? This would proly help the search function a lot.
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Not sure. I will take a look in the morning when I'm at a computer and not on my cell. I'm stoked the Rangers won and I'm going to bed. Remind me tomorrow afternoon if I don't reply in the morning.
 
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Why don't you go into your profile page select recent activity box and you can see everything you have posted in?
 
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I took a look at this. The search feature disregards extremely common words like all, I, my, the, as, an, etc. This is pretty common among search engines (google, bing, etc all do it).

So, when you do a search for all I gotta without the quotes, you're basically doing a search for 'gotta.' Obviously, you're going to get a ton of results. I believe those results are listed by most recent.

When you do a search for "all I gotta" with the quotes, you're actually doing a search for "all I gotta" and that thread will show up (along with this one now).

So, use quotes when necessary. For example, "agree completely" with quotes and agree completely without quotes will give you different search results because the order matters with quotes. You should be able to mix quotes and not quotes in the same search as well.
 
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Podmonkey said:
Maybe not the first hit, but I it finds what I'm looking for. I think it would help if we all started tagging our threads more, I don't but will start from now on. @NYGuns, @NirvanaFan, @HEX, is it possible to retroactively add tags to old threads you had created? If so how? This would proly help the search function a lot.
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Yes, you can add tags to old threads. At the bottom of the page, right below the "similar threads" that show up is an option to add tags. It's right above the text "Share this Page."


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Can the search search for this and/or that? Kinda like search for "308" and "Savage" "308" or "Savage"?
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I don't think so, but I only played around with it for a minute. You can always do a custom search of this website on Google if you like that search engine better. It will search everything that has been indexed by Google. So, it won't come back with brand new things posted in the last minute or two, or any restricted content (The bar, the admin forum where we secretly talk about everyone, etc). Just conduct your search like normal and add "site:nygunforum.com" to the end of it. For example.... :D


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Just tested with quotes and it works perfectly:) thanks for the suggestion

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I took a look at this. The search feature disregards extremely common words like all, I, my, the, as, an, etc. This is pretty common among search engines (google, bing, etc all do it).

So, when you do a search for all I gotta without the quotes, you're basically doing a search for 'gotta.' Obviously, you're going to get a ton of results. I believe those results are listed by most recent.

When you do a search for "all I gotta" with the quotes, you're actually doing a search for "all I gotta" and that thread will show up (along with this one now).

So, use quotes when necessary. For example, "agree completely" with quotes and agree completely without quotes will give you different search results because the order matters with quotes. You should be able to mix quotes and not quotes in the same search as well.
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