Searching is hard/useless on this forums

What do you want to see here? Some more categories, forums, and mods? Hmm...
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aP|Nelg
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Searching is hard/useless on this forums

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A few examples:
> You search for 0.4 development, it ignores the 4.
> Seems to block the search results on some of the OSes (mac, windows)

I know, you can always use google, but still...
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Yep—Search is basically useless [Jun 06, 2011].

I think switching to MySQL Fulltext in phpBB's settings would improve search.
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aP|Nelg wrote:I know, you can always use google, but still...
The poor search in phpBB is well known across the world, but few people know about using Google's "site" search, which is what I use whenever I am looking for widely used generic terms. For those who don't know, to search a specific website from Google, use the syntax:

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site:domain.com search terms
For instance, searching "Fortress Brawl" on this board returns 1451 results, whereas typing site:forums3.armagetronad.net "Fortress Brawl" in Google returns just 68 results.
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Re: Searching is hard/useless on this forums

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sinewav wrote:
aP|Nelg wrote:I know, you can always use google, but still...
The poor search in phpBB is well known across the world, but few people know about using Google's "site" search, which is what I use whenever I am looking for widely used generic terms. For those who don't know, to search a specific website from Google, use the syntax:

Code: Select all

site:domain.com search terms
For instance, searching "Fortress Brawl" on this board returns 1451 results, whereas typing site:forums3.armagetronad.net "Fortress Brawl" in Google returns just 68 results.
Yep, I always use google with "site:armagetronad.net" to search the forums.
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