Search Mechanism - Can we change it?

[paulr33]

Hi Guys,

First off great job running the site and keeping it operational. No doubt the site generates lots of load and always has background issues. Just a query regarding the search mechanism. It seems it always does all the words with or between them such as:

firstword or secondword or thirdword

Now this would be handy for something like

rb25det rb25de rb26de

as it would return matches for any of those engines. However it was to search for something common like

gtr dyno

then im going to get 5000+ matches that contain "gtr" or "dyno" instead of it using the and operator. Can we make it so that you can use or/and keywords or have user selectable options/presents? Many people go use the search when common things get asked, this is because the search mechanism overall sucks and doesn't use mutliple terms correctly.

Thanks

[GTRgeoff]

Actually Paul it would just give the dyno stuff as it doesn't give 3 letter searches. Try R33 GTR and see what comes back.

Mods, can this be adressed as well?

[Abo Bob]

You can use a * to get around the 3 letter thing like gtr*

[GTRgeoff]

You can use a * to get around the 3 letter thing like gtr*

[paulr33]

No you've missed my point. I myself am not trying to search on 3 letter words, i know about the 3 letter word * trick. The problem is when you search for more than 1 item it automatically does a search with or between the keywords

An example

Search: Key Word(s): GTR, RWD, DYNO

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So it returns lots of theads, in fact all of them that contain gtr or rwd or dyno. of course there are way too many to prove the search results useless. If i try two words it seems to do and between them, such as

Search: Key Word(s): ecr33, clutch

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Then it only returns threads that have ecr33 and clutch in them. Whereas the previous 3 word search matches thread that have any of the words

[Abo Bob]

I didn't miss it. I agree with you. Was just pointing out the 3 letter thing for the benefit of other readers.

I asked for and got google added as a search which helps. Of course you can't restrict your search to certain sections of the forum with google.