Author Topic: I think we need a better search engine. (Read 7531 times)

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #15 on:** February 28, 2011, 04:51:28 am »

Well if you look at my last post, I actually did some tweaking to the engine. Maybe it will work slightly better now? However the issue about only searching /* instead of */* is gonna remain. Basically unless you use advanced search, the results will be based on your forum location. From http://www.omnimaga.org/index.php?action=forum it will search the entire forum, from http://www.omnimaga.org/index.php?board=12.0 it will search Board #12 and all the sub-forums there, from http://ourl.ca/9318 it will only search this topic, and so on. Any page that isn't a sub-forum, board index or a topic will act as the board index, though, so for example if you search from the rules page it will search the entire forum too.

Deep Toaster · « **Reply #16 on:** March 20, 2011, 07:46:44 pm »

The higher priority on post date is causing problems for me. I'm trying to find news posts from long ago, and they're not showing up, even when I put pretty much the whole title in the search bar $:-\$

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #17 on:** April 06, 2011, 08:00:11 pm »

Hmm they are supposed to show up. Maybe it's a problem on your end.

Deep Toaster · « **Reply #18 on:** April 06, 2011, 08:00:42 pm »

They're showing up, but pretty far down the list.

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #19 on:** April 06, 2011, 08:04:16 pm »

Oh, that's normal then. There are unfortunately no way to show posts based on relevancy it seems.

Darl181 · « **Reply #20 on:** April 06, 2011, 08:05:46 pm »

If you click on the magnifying glass (advanced search), there's a drop down menu: "Search order"

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #21 on:** April 06, 2011, 08:06:32 pm »

Yeah, although even that still gives weird results sometimes. It's more of an issue with SMF search engine. It's not as bad as how they have it setup on SMF board, though.

Deep Toaster · « **Reply #22 on:** April 06, 2011, 08:07:26 pm »

Hmm, any chance we could integrate Google Custom Search in here? That seems to work well for some sites.

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #23 on:** April 06, 2011, 08:51:55 pm »

I don't like Google custom search. results are sometimes even more scrambled and thousands of pages ends up missing.

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