Searching The Forums

[blind_elk]

Prompted by a new post regarding head torque on a RB20, I decided to test out the Search functions on the forums.

In the "Search by Keywords" box, I typed in: torque +"cylinder head" (as per the advice in the "Advanced Usage" sidebar), from 180 days and newer

then searched.

Among the threads returned, I ended up with:

"Porting RB26 Cylinder Head", by Mik, from Oct 13, 2005.

Now, be buggered if I can find both terms anywhere in that thread.

So, is the search engine so bloody finnicky, or am I just too stupid to understand how to make it work properly (if so, how should I have constructed the query?)

[funkymonkey]

yeh the search function on this forum software is severely lacking...

try:

+torque +"cylinder head"

every term you want in the search must have a + so it reads as:

find all threads that contain torque AND the term "cylinder head"

if you leave out the first plus you get

find all threads that contain torque OR the term "cylinder head"

[Sl!m]

well thats Ghey

and why are the forums 1 minute ahead now?

[funkymonkey]

and why are the forums 1 minute ahead now?

maybe you're just 1 minute slow?

[Sl!m]

sif.. both work and home pc is one minute ahead of sau.. and I are not slow <_<

[R31Nismoid]

Or you can try torque on its own

Might bring up a lot of threads, but you can skim over the pages it will return pretty quickly by thread titles.

Might take 5mins longer, but thats how i do it.

I make it an general as i can within the topic im looking for.

Cant say ive had a problem yet

[krzysiu]

well thats Ghey

and why are the forums 1 minute ahead now?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Yeah they are even 1 minute ahead for me too

[blind_elk]

I can now see why ypeople can't get anything out of <search>.

Just tried to retrieve a For Sale I put up last week. Entered my user_name in the <Filter by member name>, and specified "Last 30 days" <or newer>. Search Classifieds + all sub-forums. My thread was not among the single thread returned.

I knew that the title was "Garage Sale", so I tried both "garage" and "+garage" in the <Search by keywords> field (all the other fields as above).

On both occasions, all I got was:

"Unfortunately your search didn't return any results."

[Sl!m]

just click on your name .

and then click on "Find member's topics"

but yeh.. the search sucks.

[Slide]

I have been posting and some are 5 miutes ahead and/or 5 minutes before others.

ie

person time of post = 12:10

my post after = 12:05

The is a glitch in the Matrix

Edited January 10, 2006 by Slide

[gazza750]

search dont work properly for me most of the time either

today i tried to do a search for *mines* about my gtr ecu but cME back with couldnt find anything

then after a few comments in new post a made about it a mod must have done a search and found stuff and linked it into my thread then locked the thread which i dont think is justified when the search engine is full of bugs not working properly.

link to my thread

http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/in...howtopic=118215

searches i did for it included

mines

mines ecu

gtr mines ecu

all searches came back negative

this isnt the only time i have tried using the search function and it hasnt worked

[Sl!m]

haha Ash strikes again

[R31Nismoid]

Indeed i did Sam

search dont work properly for me most of the time either

today i tried to do a search for *mines* about my gtr ecu but cME back with couldnt find anything

then after a few comments in new post a made about it a mod must have done a search and found stuff and linked it into my thread then locked the thread which i dont think is justified when the search engine is full of bugs not working properly.

link to my thread

http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/in...howtopic=118215

searches i did for it included

mines

mines ecu

gtr mines ecu

all searches came back negative

this isnt the only time i have tried using the search function and it hasnt worked

I locked your thread

I searched using "mines"

I can 100% say its definately working, sometimes the search button is a little funny, but i just tried it again and i came up with the same results for "mines"

However, i bet you forgot the following crucial search option, and thats why it is not working for you.

You must change the Search posts from... box if you wish to search back further

The default is 30 Days...

You must change this depending on how far back you wanna go. I used 365 days

Cheers