search engine needs to be upgraded?

nikonrus · 18th April 2007

I'm having a lot of problems trying to do search in the forum. Am I doing something wrong?

I tried to search for 'FA' - not accepted, too short.
I tried to search 'Nikon FA', too many threads showed up; most just because of the word Nikon.

I tried to search '18-70' - no results.
I tried to search 'Nikon+18+70' - again too many threads showed up because of the word nikon.

Jason Ho · 18th April 2007

Originally Posted by nikonrus

I'm having a lot of problems trying to do search in the forum. Am I doing something wrong?

I tried to search for 'FA' - not accepted, too short.
I tried to search 'Nikon FA', too many threads showed up; most just because of the word Nikon.

I tried to search '18-70' - no results.
I tried to search 'Nikon+18+70' - again too many threads showed up because of the word nikon.

The 2 characters restriction is set to balance the system available resource vs the usage. With the amount of postings, we have decided to do away with 2 character search.

For more information on how to get better search results, please refer to http://forum.clubsnap.org/showthread.php?t=147156

grantyale · 2nd May 2007

It seems the search works on an "OR" logic. Searching "Canon 17-40" gives all the craps like "Tamron 18-50 Canon Mount".

I tend to use Google for other subforum searches, but Buy&Sell isn't up-to-date in Google's cache.

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Errr... is this a result of using #KEY_WORD# matching in SQL? In this case ... perhaps we can use the quotation marks (like Google) to define KEY_PHRASE so that it's considered as a contiguous string in SQL search.

18th April 2007	#1
nikonrus Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 321	search engine needs to be upgraded? I'm having a lot of problems trying to do search in the forum. Am I doing something wrong? I tried to search for 'FA' - not accepted, too short. I tried to search 'Nikon FA', too many threads showed up; most just because of the word Nikon. I tried to search '18-70' - no results. I tried to search 'Nikon+18+70' - again too many threads showed up because of the word nikon.

2nd May 2007	#3
grantyale Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Pioneer Posts: 1,397	Re: search engine needs to be upgraded? It seems the search works on an "OR" logic. Searching "Canon 17-40" gives all the craps like "Tamron 18-50 Canon Mount". I tend to use Google for other subforum searches, but Buy&Sell isn't up-to-date in Google's cache. ======edited text:================ Errr... is this a result of using #KEY_WORD# matching in SQL? In this case ... perhaps we can use the quotation marks (like Google) to define KEY_PHRASE so that it's considered as a contiguous string in SQL search. Last edited by grantyale; 2nd May 2007 at 12:26 AM.