cgfen

thanks for asking
it would be nice to save previous search parameters when you decide to use a different key word rather than re-selecting specific forum / date / etc.
i don't mean "saving" a global search, i mean just saving parameters from one search to the next in the same session

thanks

Craig

helmet155

Searching doesn't search for the phrase entered, it searches for each word as a single word...makes finding what you are looking for difficult...

:thumbsdown:

Mongo

I noticed that you only get 250 results all the time. Most of them are only in the 2009 year.

It also doesn't do a good job at searching for key words either.

sundog

When I search for more than one word, it seems to get almost half of the existing posts on the first page. Unless it's searching in the signatures, and other places that is not possible. I tried "wheel weights" and "wheels getting hot" in the racing forum.

Please fix this, it is becoming very difficult to use these forums for searching for relevant technical information.

Thanks

boxsey911

+1 Perfect description of what's happening at the moment

Buckaroo Banzi

Tried searching for "Hard Start Cold" just got garbage.

-BB

Buckaroo Banzi

HELP!!!!!!

Why is search limited to 10 pages and only for 2009??...

How long do you think it's going to take to fix search????

-BB

hockeydude

when i search i just get the most random, new threads and posts from all over rennlist... Why did we have to change the old search? is there a "reset" button back to how it was?!

Wipeout

I agree with all the comments. Very tough to find old threads that have great information in the technical forums. Searching exhaust rattle (no quotes) in the 944 forum gave random results. With quotes it was only marginally better.

Can the tweaks be reset in the technical forums? Leave it as is in OT and some of the other forums, maybe, but it makes the technical forums useless if you're trying to find old threads that have great material.

ehall

I agree. Quit screwing up this forum already! This is way past ridiculous. It wasn't broken, so stop fixing it.

helmet155

seriously, how was it broken before?

Anyone from "IB" want to comment on what they are doing to add any value?

Why pay to be a member?

MPD47

Uhhh... just used search.... and all it did was give me every damn thread in the forum I was searching for. Guess I'll do things manually....

How the hell does something like this get screwed up?

Wipeout

IB? An update, please. Search still does not work as expected.

IB Adrian

They use the same engines.Ok - I can't explain why that would be the case. I will try to understand why, and get that rectified.There are 2 options in search when searching for posts by a user.
"Find Posts by User"
AND
"Find Threads Started by User"

I tried both options, and they returned their respective correct results. If you select the option you want from these 2 options, is it still returning incorrect results?It will return 250 results at a time.
You can select in the options the date range that you want your results from (for example, you know the thread was posted sometime around June 2006, you can search for threads July 2006 and older and order the results by post date)I hope the above reply helps
The problem was that it was broken
The search function on the site was severly impacting website performance (as the website outgrew the inbuilt vBulletin search).
If someone searched the whole site for a term like "wheels" or "911" it would bring the site down

As a result, we had to build a seperate search engine to ensure that it didn't impact page load times for users.
Because search is such a complex tool (you can have 500 users try to find the same thread by using 500 different terms), we utilized an existing search engine called sphinx (it is used on Craigslist for example), and then made it work with the vbulletin format.
As a result its interpretation of what brings up results is different that the previous search engine, we are still adjusting the settings to try to replicate what was previously available as best we can and improving the relevancy of results.

TheOtherEric

My membership just expired and I'm not renewing until they fix Search. It's useless now, and so Rennlist is mostly useless to me.