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Esato's Search sucks. |
imanuk
Joined: Mar 05, 2004
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The esato search works really well after you have read the infomation on how to use search terms at the bottom of this page:
http://www.esato.com/board/search.php
If you would prefer to use google to search esato then type your search term including:
site:www.esato.com
That searches only the esato domain. For further info on google searches refer to their help pages:
http://www.google.com/help/refinesearch.html |
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gforce23
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Nice explanation mate.
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50Cent
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On 2004-05-07 19:10:28, Twista wrote:
well it is hard to find what u want sometimes. With a little bit of time and patience u'll get there in the end. 
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 i admit thats a pile of crap....search sucks!
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imanuk
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Cheers geforce, I try to keep my posts constuctive - unlike this one  |
masseur
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On 2004-05-07 19:09:13, Yazan24 wrote:
The search function on esato sucks, I never find what im looking for even if I type the title of the thread.
Someone agree?
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no, I always find what I am looking for when referring other members to threads etc.
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Yazan24
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Masseur Try searching for the title of the thread, say you lost the thread.
What results do u get?
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Jowi
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Sometimes
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wapchimp
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It's true. I searched for Esato's Search sucks.
It was on the second page in 11th place!
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kimcheeboi
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On 2004-05-07 19:09:13, Yazan24 wrote:
The search function on esato sucks, I never find what im looking for even if I type the title of the thread.
Someone agree?
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search for five words: search function on esato sucks
and its #1.
you're searching for content, not the title, and its good at searching out CONTENT.
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wapchimp
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True again. It's top. I think the title should be picked up in a search though.
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kimcheeboi
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maybe an option "search for title"
edit:and look at the "flame war" of smilies
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laffen
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I did not invent the search function. It's built into the mysql (database) server.
From the mysql manual:
Every correct word in the collection and in the query is weighted according to its significance in the collection or query. This way, a word that is present in many documents has a lower weight (and may even have a zero weight), because it has lower semantic value in this particular collection. Conversely, if the word is rare, it receives a higher weight. The weights of the words are then combined to compute the relevance of the row
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Fulltext_Search.html |
GOwin
Joined: Jan 17, 2002
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the latest version we have is much better than what we had last time. anyway, there are 3 ways of searching ESATO.
1) the esato Forum SEARCH function
2) the "Search Esato" function(which you can see on the left part of your screen everywhere in the site)
3) search using http://www.google.com with the "site:"
I hope that helps.
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Krubach
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@laffen. Can't you override that built-in search function of mysql, making your own queries with qualifiers like "+" and "-"? The only problem is if mysqI queries are case-sensitive (Oracle is...).
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GOwin
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@krubach
that's doable already.
notes in the esato forum search function:
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+ A leading plus sign indicates that this word must be present in every post returned.
- A leading minus sign indicates that this word must not be present in any post returned.
* An asterisk is the truncation operator. Unlike the other operators, it should be appended to the word, not prepended.
" The phrase, that is enclosed in double quotes ", matches only rows that contain this phrase literally, as it was typed.
Examples:
apple banana - find posts that contain at least one of these words.
+apple +juice - find posts that contain both words.
+apple -macintosh - find posts that contain the word "apple" but not "macintosh"
apple* - find "apple", "apples", "applet".
"some words" - find "some words of wisdom", but not "some noise words". |
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Posted: 2004-05-07 20:42
