Then use the KMC Search instead which is far more advanced anyway.
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See, I use the one at the bottom of the forum pretty much exclusively, and with that the only time I can't find the exact thread I'm looking for is if it's misspelled.
Question: If you use the 'title: (thread title)', does that search for exactly what you have typed in, or does it search for keywords? I tried to find another thread today but I wasnt sure what the exact name of it was, and I couldnt find it on any of the other searches.
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I don't think you need to use brackets... I did and it didn't bring anything up. I mean, I searched the OTF using 'title:the gentlemans club' and that seemed to work well enough. But when I tried the brackets as well it found nothing
If you type in title:the gentlemans club - then it will search for "the" in the title and "gentlemans" and "club" in either the title or a post.
Correct way would be to use title:"the gentlemans club" to search for that exact phrase or title:(the gentlemans club) for those terms in the title in any order.
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Ok, but as I said, the first thing I searched for was title:(the gentlemans club) and it found nothing. So I tried title:the gentlemans club and, as you said, it brought up the thread itself and other places where it had been mentioned. So if I used title:"the gentlemans club" it will search for the title as a whole?
I was just wondering why the use of brackets found nothing.
Hmm, got to concur with Syren on this one Raz; neither brackets nor quote marks find the thread. They find Mech's old one though.
Edit: Ah, but Gentleman (without the s) does work.
Is it possible that the apostrophe in "Gentleman's Club" (which Mech's one did not have) is throwing it? The search does not work with or without the apostrophe but that really only backs the suspicion.
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Last edited by Ushgarak on Dec 1st, 2006 at 05:51 PM
No, that's not it. If you search in the forum using the quote marks it finds the words in the body text, not the title, in what is meant to be a literal title-only search. The 'title' part of the search seems to have become redundant when used like that.
That being the case, the reason you only find it when using the search box in the OTF is precisely because it is searching for body text, not title.
It does seem this is not working properly. As it stands it still seems that it cannot find "The Gentleman's Club" by a title search, using parentheses or quote marks, and it may be the fault of the apostrophe.
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Last edited by Ushgarak on Dec 1st, 2006 at 06:13 PM
Actually, I am not sure the quote mark searches work at all. Following the example above, the parentheses will find Jade Empire, but the quote marks will not. Again, it seems to search only the body text, not the title, when done in quote marks.
Just to follow up on the apostrophe thing, it seems a title search does not work on any term using an apostrophe, or at least an apostrophe followed by an s.
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Last edited by Ushgarak on Dec 1st, 2006 at 06:24 PM
Also, it seems, the need for brackets is mandatory. i.e. title:"the gentleman club" will not work as expected instead it should be title:("the gentleman club")
About the inclusion time - the engine is updated 4 times a day IIRC. And it contains all 7 million+ posts.
Do you have a link to the thread and the search terms you used that didn't find the thread?
Well, it's about 4-5 threads that it doesn't find, and they're all on the front page of that specific forum, so it's not that big of a deal...but I noticed it when I was doing a search for all of the Matrix RPG threads in the RP forum. I'll type title:matrix into the search at the bottom of the forum, and it gives me all the old threads (which are 2-3 years old), but only one thread from this year (dated from June) comes up.
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