Extended search capabilities?

galah · n00b Joined: 23 Feb 2004 Posts: 50

Hello,

Is it possible or feasible to inplement the ability to search through individual threads?

When doing a search the returns can sometimes be over 20 pages long which is quite a task to plough through and is very time consuming. I think it would be far easier to then be able to search that thread and it's 20+ pages.

Any thoughts?

Galah

steel300 · Veteran Joined: 10 Jul 2003 Posts: 1155

That would be a good feature, but I think that it's more of a phpBB thing.
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ewan.paton · Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2004 4:23 am Post subject:

theres an option to display the matching message after a search rather than the thread if thats any help, i do agree though a more detailed search capability would be great

Decibels · Veteran Joined: 16 Aug 2002 Posts: 1551 Location: U.S.A.

Yes, that would be a Great Feature. Sometimes some asks a question and there was an answer about 10 pages back, but can't seem to find it today.

Actually I would just like even a better main search. You have to use boolean and it splits words that have some hyphen or period,.. in them.
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michaelb · Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 2:43 pm Post subject:

That's my biggest gripe with search right there. Is it even possible to search for "foo X.Y.Z-rcN"? Makes it very difficult to look up problems with a partiuclar package or kernel version.
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Decibels · Veteran Joined: 16 Aug 2002 Posts: 1551 Location: U.S.A.

Exactly, when trying to eliminate garbage and get actual results you need to be able to enter stuff like that. No wonder a lot of people do a quick search and then post. Good chance the answer is in there or something that might lead to an answer, but it is hidden in a really lousy search engine.

We could probably cut the posts by 30-50% if the search engine was better. Now I pulled those numbers out of my A$$, but bet I am close.
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malmjako · Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 3:43 pm Post subject:

I agree with Decibels. Would it be possible to use Google or some similar technique for the search engine?

I would also like to be able to search just the subjects.

/Jakob Malm

Andersson · Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2004 10:47 pm Post subject: