Please provide a search engine that isn't limited

[AndyB]

One of the most disliked functions on vBulletin is the very limiting search engine used to find information in posts and threads.

I have been using vBulletin since 2002 and suffered using the built-in search engine for several years until I wrote my own search engine. The search engine I wrote searches directly on the post and thread tables to find what users are looking for. This has worked amazingly well for over four years on my forum.

My forum has over 1 million posts and this direct search technique works very quickly. I encourage xenForo to take a close look at using a simple SELECT statement that directly searchers the post and thread tables.

The benefit of using the MySQL SELECT directly on the post and thread tables is that any word or character can be searched. For example you can search for:

http://xenforo.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNJnt_dMv_0
quote=[AndyB]
xenForo is a better forum

By not limiting the search engine, users can quickly find the information they are looking for.

Thank you for your consideration on this.

 

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In addition,Xenforo should give consideration to CJK searching.As a world based forum,it's no harm to improve the search engine for supporting CJK,which will gain reputation for Xen in these countries.