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Author Topic: forum search improvement  (Read 9685 times)

mouser

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forum search improvement
« on: October 09, 2006, 08:05 AM »
got an "unreleased" minor patch for the forum search from smf people this morning, it seems to improve search; fixes a bug where subjects weren't being searched properly and scoring was a bit messed up.  let me know if you find any anomolies in search, hopefully we will soon have a perfect forum search function.

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Re: forum search improvement
« Reply #1 on: October 09, 2006, 01:01 PM »
Sorry to be a pessimist, but. . .

hopefully we will soon have a perfect forum search function.

 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

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Re: forum search improvement
« Reply #2 on: October 16, 2006, 01:11 AM »
Is this stuff intended for 1.1 Final?

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Re: forum search improvement
« Reply #3 on: October 16, 2006, 08:25 PM »
hopefully we will soon have a perfect forum search function.

;D that would indeed be a feat.

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Re: forum search improvement
« Reply #4 on: October 16, 2006, 08:47 PM »
it's much improved already, i think.

JJ: here is the thread where the patch was posted: http://www.simplemac....msg760447#msg760447

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Re: forum search improvement
« Reply #5 on: October 16, 2006, 08:59 PM »
Hmm, missing or off limits? Are you a supporter? :D

And really I don't care much about access just now. Just want to know if it'll be included in 1.1 final.

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Re: forum search improvement
« Reply #6 on: October 16, 2006, 09:24 PM »
ah it's on the charter member only section maybe.. yes i donated to smf to become a charter member, seems the least we could do.

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Re: forum search improvement
« Reply #7 on: October 16, 2006, 09:29 PM »
For sure. I have strongly considering doing so myself, and probably will soon as SMF is pretty well solidifying itself as my favorite forum system (free or otherwise - bought a license of vB and I don't like it :D).

But, er... any idea if this stuff is going to be included in 1.1 final? ;)

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Re: forum search improvement
« Reply #8 on: October 19, 2006, 01:37 PM »
yes it will be in 1.1 its just a line or two of a bugfix if i remember properly.

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Re: forum search improvement
« Reply #9 on: October 19, 2006, 06:41 PM »
I have a good idea for improving the forum search.

Just use the information used to make the Firefox search plugin so that the forum search uses google to search itself. I get much better results from Google, which says the forum search is really pathetic.

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Re: forum search improvement
« Reply #10 on: October 19, 2006, 07:01 PM »
Deozaan: Notice that google results have a problem: the new posts aren't listed, since they still haven't been indexed by google.

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Re: forum search improvement
« Reply #11 on: October 19, 2006, 07:23 PM »
Deozaan: Notice that google results have a problem: the new posts aren't listed, since they still haven't been indexed by google.

I hadn't thought of that. Sound like Google will be as accurate at finding new posts as the current search is at finding any posts.  :P

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Re: forum search improvement
« Reply #12 on: October 19, 2006, 08:25 PM »
Sound like Google will be as accurate at finding new posts as the current search is at finding any posts.  :P
Well... Good point  ;D ;D ;D