Forum Search Engine

I hate the search engine on this forum. It's f*cking useless. Doesnt even search the keywords in a title. I get a whole bunch of threads BUT the one I'm after. I tried typing it's name, then just the keywords, but to no avail. I've encountered this problem before as well. WHY doesn't it work.

inb4 operator problem.

Coulda had a V8

Originally posted by kodak
Coulda had a V8

Sense, make some. 😛

Originally posted by Kosta
I hate the search engine on this forum. It's f*cking useless. Doesnt even search the keywords in a title. I get a whole bunch of threads BUT the one I'm after. I tried typing it's name, then just the keywords, but to no avail. I've encountered this problem before as well. WHY doesn't it work.

inb4 operator problem.

It doesn't work because you're not using it right 😛

Unless you tell it to only search in the title, it searches through all posts.

Try "title:word" next time.

They changed the quick search years ago, if you want an accurate one you have to use the one at the top of the page, but that searches every forum so it takes a while to find what you need.

Originally posted by Peach
It doesn't work because you're not using it right 😛

Unless you tell it to only search in the title, it searches through all posts.

Try "title:word" next time.

Originally posted by MIŠT
They changed the quick search years ago, if you want an accurate one you have to use the one at the top of the page, but that searches every forum so it takes a while to find what you need.

Actually, the one at the bottom of each forum is more accurate - unless you are looking for a specific post. It's just a matter of knowing how to get the most use out of it.

http://www.killermovies.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=6874573#post6874573

Originally posted by Raz
[b]Update

New search is up and running and blindingly fast. There are some new advanced operators you can use in your search:

[list]
[*]userid: search by user - so userid:1 will only return results by me. You can get the userid of a user by looking at the URL from the profile of the person you want to search by. Or by entering the username in the advanced section of the search.

[*]forumid: search by forum - so forumid:61 will only return results from the OTF. You can get the forumid by looking at the URL of the forum.

[*]threadid: search by thread - so threadid:10813 will only return results from the "Random Comments" thread (our largest on KMC). You can get the threadid again by looking at the URL of the thread.

[*]title: search by title - title:google will return all threads with the word google in them.
[/list]

Only thing left is "results as thread" option, which will be done by the end of this week.

Enjoy! [/B]

Originally posted by Peach
It doesn't work because you're not using it right 😛

Unless you tell it to only search in the title, it searches through all posts.

Try "title:word" next time.

So unless I type 'Title: etc' it will ONLY search through the posts? It wont even search for the keyword in the titles of the threads? mmm. I'll try that. Seems strange though.

Originally posted by Peach
Actually, the one at the bottom of each forum is more accurate - unless you are looking for a specific post. It's just a matter of knowing how to get the most use out of it.

http://www.killermovies.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=6874573#post6874573

Ok, cool. Thanks Lana. 😊.

Originally posted by Kosta
So unless I type 'Title: etc' it will ONLY search through the posts? It wont even search for the keyword in the titles of the threads? mmm. I'll try that. Seems strange though.

It will search through the titles of the threads, yes, but also the posts themselves and I believe it returns the results in chronological order, so newer stuff is at the top.

See the post I made directly before yours 😛 No space in the "title:etc", btw.

Originally posted by Peach
It will search through the titles of the threads, yes, but also the posts themselves and I believe it returns the results in chronological order, so newer stuff is at the top.

See the post I made directly before yours 😛 No space in the "title:etc", btw.

"Title:Last time you had sex" Gets no results. 🙁.

Try searching for just one word from the title, it works better that way.

Originally posted by Peach
Try searching for just one word from the title, it works better that way.

Already did. Tried "title😖ex". Nothing. Seriously, it's not the most efficient SE I've ever dealt with. 😛

Originally posted by Kosta
Already did. Tried "title😖ex". Nothing. Seriously, it's not the most efficient SE I've ever dealt with. 😛

http://www.killermovies.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=380144&highlight=title%3Alast+forumid%3A61

😛

I did 'title:last' and it came up right away.

Originally posted by Peach
http://www.killermovies.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=380144&highlight=title%3Alast+forumid%3A61

😛

I did 'title:last' and it came up right away.

I did that exact search, and got no results. I dunno.

Umm, ok, apparently capital letters are what I was doing wrong. "Title:last" got no results, but "title:last" did... thats the stupidest thing ever.

Thanks for you help though, Lana. 😄

Did you type in title:last or "title:last"?

Because if it was the latter, it's not gonna work 😛

And yeah, caps can mess it up. Do everything in lowercase.

Originally posted by Peach
Actually, the one at the bottom of each forum is more accurate - unless you are looking for a specific post. It's just a matter of knowing how to get the most use out of it.

http://www.killermovies.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=6874573#post6874573

Interesting...

If you wanted to search say the OTF so you put forumid:61, do you then type what you are looking for? So 'forumid:61 pancake'?

Originally posted by Peach
Did you type in title:last or "title:last"?

Because if it was the latter, it's not gonna work 😛

And yeah, caps can mess it up. Do everything in lowercase.

I did it without the space like you said. Caps was the problem.

Originally posted by MIŠT
Interesting...

If you wanted to search say the OTF so you put forumid:61, do you then type what you are looking for? So 'forumid:61 pancake'?

You don't really have to but you can, yes. Heck, you can set it to find all posts by a certain member in a certain thread containing a specific word 😛