And maybe search for "hole word" only as default:===> 'Fun'
With an hint to use asterisks ===> '*fun*'  for fuzzy search.
Or better an check box?

-AbteriX (July 27, 2007, 07:08 PM)

There's a serious problem with matching "whole word" only, normally you do NOT want to search with this option in that:

With "whole word" matching on, if someone searches "tool", it won't find "tools"; similarly, for "play", the search wont be able return "played", "playing", "player", etc. variants. In the end there will be many missing results and the user may end up having to revise search query many times.

Let's say I search for: free download manager, should a post that contains "freeware downloader manager" or "freebie downloading managers" match. With "whole word" matching on, the post will be excluded from results, unfortunately.

Able to use RegEx would be handy of course ==> '\bFun??'  ===> 'Fun' , 'funny',....

-AbteriX (July 27, 2007, 07:08 PM)

Yes, but it will hit v hard on the server and drive mouser mad  ;)

I suspect there's need for search within a single topic:

We have humongous topics here, like:

General brainstorming for Note-taking software
with 570 replies!

Latest FARR v2.00.135 ALPHA PREVIEW Release - July 17, 2007
with 783 replies!


You know when you do search, even when there are multiple posts matching your query within a topic, only the latest (yes, just one) matching post will be shown (quoted) on search results page:



(Only the latest matching post is quoted)

And as a matter of fact, there are two matching posts in that topic, and the second one (not shown in search results) might be more interesting:

https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?action=search2;topic=3824.0;local=1;search=allsnap


Now without search box support for searching within a single topic, you literally have to go through more than a dozen topic pages (if there are more than 200 replies) to find the rest of posts that also matched your query!


p.s. our new DC search (engine) supports single topic search straightforwardly, we are actually deciding on whether to add user interface for it.  :)

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