So searching I know for a fact has always been a pain on here (and lots of other forums), you get the equivalent of an electronic vomit on your screen with various keywords thrown up with little attention to relevance.
As of right now we're offering a hopefully much much better search experience with lots of really cool features and a much better presentation. Simply hit the search button (magnifying glass top right), type in a keyword same as before and you'll be taken to a a world of wonder and amazement... errmm.. or just a better search screen.
Try it out.
For the geeks/google wizkids of you, we have cool operators you can now use:
Screenshot below:
Search features:
user:"Nik"
tag:"site improvements"
before:2010-12-31
after:2014-01-01
corvette -mustang
corvette+power
forum:30
thread:145277
title:"search"
pirates^2 ocean
"best forum" ~5
And many many more....
Enjoy
As of right now we're offering a hopefully much much better search experience with lots of really cool features and a much better presentation. Simply hit the search button (magnifying glass top right), type in a keyword same as before and you'll be taken to a a world of wonder and amazement... errmm.. or just a better search screen.
Try it out.
For the geeks/google wizkids of you, we have cool operators you can now use:
Screenshot below:
Search features:
user:"Nik"
- Searches for posts by user "donnie darko"
- Quotes are needed only if the username has more than one word
tag:"site improvements"
- Searches for posts with the tag "site improvements
- Quotes are needed only if the tag has more than one word
before:2010-12-31
- Searches for posts before Dec. 31, 2010
after:2014-01-01
- Searches for posts after Jan. 1, 2014
corvette -mustang
- Searches for posts with "corvette" but not "mustang"
- aka NOT operator
corvette+power
- Searches for posts with " corvette " and " power "
- aka AND operator
forum:30
- Restricts search results to posts from forum id 30
thread:145277
- Restricts search results to posts from thread id 145277
title:"search"
- Searches thread titles only for "search"
pirates^2 ocean
- Boosts "pirates" by a factor of 2 (can be any positive number >0, including <1), ranking it higher
"best forum" ~5
- Searches for posts with "best" and "forum" within 5 words of each other (can be any number between 0 and 5)
And many many more....
Enjoy