Gentoo forum search sucks

legabier · Apprentice Joined: 30 Aug 2004 Posts: 231

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cokey · Advocate Joined: 23 Apr 2004 Posts: 3355

what about having a link in the search part so you can choose which search you want? I use one on my site and the code is like so:

TimSSC · Posted: Wed May 03, 2006 12:23 am Post subject: search problems

When I type in a long search, some results apear but in the quick search box, there is a different search from the one I typed! When I press enter with the new search, I get the same results.

For example, I searched "manual configuration vs genkernel" and it turned up some results with "manual genkernel" in the search box. Pressing enter again turned up the same results. It seems like some search keywords are being chopped off. What's up with this? Oh, and going to advanced search doesn't make any difference.

doblebo · Posted: Wed May 03, 2006 12:42 am Post subject: Re: Gentoo forum search sucks

omp · Posted: Wed May 03, 2006 1:43 am Post subject: Re: search problems

Maedhros · Posted: Wed May 03, 2006 7:22 am Post subject:

Merged TimSSC and omp's posts here.

Please see new search stopwords list for more details on which words are filtered and why.
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micmac · l33t Joined: 28 Nov 2003 Posts: 996

Hi Forum-Mods,

is this possible? Often I'd like to search for threads dedicated to to one or more keywords. Those often occur in the title of a posting. So in my opinion having a title-only search would be great.

Btw., thanks for keeping this forum up and running!

mic

tomk · Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 9:07 pm Post subject:

Merged previous post

We're working on a new search engine that will give you the option to only search for words in the topic title.
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micmac · l33t Joined: 28 Nov 2003 Posts: 996

Thanks, great!

mic

dmartinsca · Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 3:32 pm Post subject:

the word parallel is for some reason switched to paralell in the quick search box after hitting return to do the search. Is this someone's idea of spell check?

ian! · Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 10:47 am Post subject:

Yes. See: http://sources.gentoo.org/viewc...some-very-long-url Earthwings stripped to fit on his small laptop screen
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devsk · Posted: Fri May 12, 2006 12:17 am Post subject: Gentoo forum search sucks...

why does it not allow certain words? anything less than 3 letters is ignored. I wanted to search for 'df usage wrong' it searches only for 'usage'. I wanted to search 'df wrong', it searches for null and comes up with no results. How bizzare is that?

PMcCauley · Posted: Fri May 12, 2006 12:34 am Post subject:

I agree. This would probably be a limitation of phpbb although I am not certain. Try using google. You can add the site: flag.

tomk · Posted: Fri May 12, 2006 7:49 am Post subject:

Merged previous two posts. You should also have a look at this topic: new search stopwords list.
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devsk · Posted: Fri May 12, 2006 9:25 pm Post subject:

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lefsha · Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 7:57 pm Post subject: F*ing Forum Search

What the Hell is going with this forum search???

It was bad - very bad. But now it is even worse.

Hey guys, you really try to copy Microsoft concept like
"we know better what you need and much better what you never need?"

Don't you???

What the reason to change my keywords, I'm looking with?
What the reason to delete some of them?

Just now I'm looking for the problem with mono.

My debug version show me that it can't find the lib mscorlib.dll.so

So I try to find out, whether some one allready had this issue.

But what I got?

Instead of "mscorlib.dll.so" forum search showed me results for "mscorlib dll"

It is wrong! I'm not looking for this!

Please, be not so "clever" and show me JUST I AM LOOKING FOR
and nothing else!!!

Is it really so difficult????

Sometimes this crazy engine cut off last words from my input
and shows me messages related to the first word only..

Hey guys you worked for microsoft or what?
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ziggysquatch · Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 8:00 pm Post subject:

as loud as this post is.....

I concur.

Naib · Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 8:17 pm Post subject:

that is why I use google

SEARCH_ITEM site:forums.gentoo.org

never had a problem
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Earthwings · Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 8:22 pm Post subject: Re: F*ing Forum Search

lefsha · Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 10:55 pm Post subject: Re: F*ing Forum Search

Earthwings · Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 7:57 am Post subject: Re: F*ing Forum Search

Apewall · Apprentice Joined: 01 Dec 2004 Posts: 248 Location: USA

I find the forum search lacking as of lately.

example. today i wanted to search for the line
"fsck.rieserfs not found"

gentoo search translated this as

"FSCK OR RIESERFS"

giving me absolutely nothing near what i wanted.

could there not be an option to -search for exact phrase- so it would stop removing characters like . or / and give more precise results. Or possible to only allow the un-indexed words to be searched for when used in -search for exact phrase-.

Also, i rather have it return with "no posts found" than change my search and display non-related posts to my search.
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rizzurant · Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 3:59 pm Post subject:

have you try ?