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| Yminus wrote: | | Hehe, I just was about to post a new thread to complain about this shitty forum search with this braindead stop-word list and missing of Boolean expressions - and despite the maddening search found this thread dating back to Feb 2003! Sorry folks, I did not read this thread since it is far too long, but believe me the forum search still sucks... |
What did you expect, this is Gentoo you know. Move on. |
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When I need to do a search on the forums I usually start with the forum search. If that brings up nothing I try searching on google with "emerge gnome fails site:forums.gentoo.org"
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| DownSet wrote: | | When I need to do a search on the forums I usually start with the forum search. If that brings up nothing I try searching on google with "emerge gnome fails site:forums.gentoo.org" |
Actually the forum search brings complete irrelevant things. I think Gentoo should use Google for it's searches.
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| Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2011 11:07 am Post subject: |
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| dE_logics wrote: | | Actually the forum search brings complete irrelevant things. I think Gentoo should use Google for it's searches. |
See here for why that's not an option.
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| Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 1:04 pm Post subject: |
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| tomk wrote: | | dE_logics wrote: | | Actually the forum search brings complete irrelevant things. I think Gentoo should use Google for it's searches. |
See here for why that's not an option. |
Maybe you should start using something like Recoll.
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| Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 1:21 pm Post subject: |
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| dE_logics wrote: | | Maybe you should start using something like Recoll. |
Recoll itself is of little use here but when (if?) we move to phpBB3 there are various options for performing full text searches that we will explore.
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| Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 10:55 pm Post subject: The search functionality in these forums sucks |
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I don't know if anything can be done about it, but the search functionality really blows. It doesn't find what it ought to find.
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Indeed -- use Google with "site:forums.gentoo.org" .
I'm sure something can be done about it, just as something can be done about the GLSAs, newsletter, official handbook, and wiki.
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Thanks for the tip.
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Well it doesn't suck so much that I couldn't find this topic 
Merged from here.
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