Search Function Idea

[Basti]

maybe it wud b easier to search for things if people were allowed to attatch tags to their topics. the search button could then look for these tags instead of trying to find a particular subject by searching titles or content. coz these things vary quite a lot between threads even if they'r basically bout the same thing.

dunno if that makes sense to anyone but i got the idea from youtube and how they index their vids. it shud work the same for threads rite?

thoughts?

[Revhead]

Nice idea but not one I think would be any more useful than the current method.

Youtube etc use these keywords because with videos (and pics/audio) there's no "content" to index - without someone entering keywords, the system has no idea what a given video is about.

On the other hand, threads containing text can be easily indexed by their content, anyone who can effectively use Google or Altavista should be able to search for threads by content. Keywords can be easily manipulated, abused or ignored - people could either put nothing or garbage in, or they'd put things like "turbo" and "boost" etc into their threads in the hopes of getting more people reading them.

Also, the relevance of certain keywords could quite easily change - a person could ask a question about tyres, and the conversation could quite easily turn to suspension, brakes, tracks, etc. In this example, the original post would (should) contain keywords like "tyre", "rubber", "grip", "traction" etc, so if you did a keyword search on suspension, you'd miss out on the potentially excellent information later in the thread because the terms wouldn't match.

Honestly I think the search function is best left the way it is, but nice suggestion

[Basti]

hmm good points u got. never really thought of the potential 4 abuse.

thanks for the reply.

[PranK]

I'll be adding a google search option soon which will give us much better results from searches. The Invision system isn't great IMO.