Random Thoughts...

[Lisa]

mmmmmm Apple Crumble with Elmlea Double Cream.......

 

[Adam Howard]

115 F / 46 C

Its hot... So ******** hot.

I feel like I'm cooking here....

medium rare, at 115 F for 20 minutes per pound for a nice slow roast.

 

[Shelley]

Being positive since 1999

 

[Kevin]

Star Wars... Episodes 1 - 3....... why?

Because Lucas hates his own fans.

 

[Paul]

Grrrrrr.....

 

[Adam Howard]

Our rules supersede those of the outside world.

 

[Sador]

Today is a good day.

 

[Adam Howard]

I'm having a brain fart.

One of those times when I use to do something, but can't for the life of me remember how to do it now.

 

[Jeremy]

"I searched" is one of the biggest lies on forums.

 

[Adam Howard]

"I searched" is one of the biggest lies on forums.

50 / 50

I think half of the people do lie about this.

The other half did search, but forum search on any forum needs much improvement.

 

[Jeremy]

I have yet to have major difficulties searching and finding what I need on most forum software. The people need more improving, not the searching algorithms.

 

[Adam Howard]

I have yet to have major difficulties searching and finding what I need on most forum software. The people need more improving, not the searching algorithms.

People shouldn't adapt to search, search should adapt to people.

One is possible... The other is not.

You can code search to respond better to queries. You can't code people to know exactly what X key words will bring up Y desired results.

For that matter.... I can type in the exact title of a thread and still be told nothing is found.

 

[Jeremy]

Please provide an example. XF searching works perfectly fine. If anything, you would be overloading the search algorithm with too many search terms.

 

[SneakyDave]

I/O Error = Incompetent Operator

 

[Adam Howard]

Please provide an example. XF searching works perfectly fine. If anything, you would be overloading the search algorithm with too many search terms.

All right... Simple example.

This thread, Random Thoughts

It is a little over 1 year old - made June 16, 2012 (today is the 26th)

It is 108 pages long. More than enough to pick up right?

Took the 2x try to get and is the 5th result. The other 4 above it are not even related.

But we could argue "random thoughts" is maybe to common. So let's try something else....

"spiders"

That should bring up something to do with web spiders or maybe "Spiders XML" for example (seen above), right?

Ironically, that brought up "random thoughts"

Let's try some more direct. "web spiders"

Nope still no joy.

OK.... How about lets be more direct and type out the title directly "Spiders XML"

Even though the majority of people looking up information on web spiders aren't even going to think about XML. You have to keep in mind that everyone uses search, including the not so geek smart.

Finally.... Found the thread that was quoted in photo example 1. It's the 4th one down from the search.

This is what I would call... needs improvement.

 

[Paul B]

Check the "Relevance" box.

Works every time.

A case of PEBKAC I feel.

 

[Pereira]

?

 

[Adam Howard]

Check the "Relevance" box.

Works every time.

A case of PEBKAC I feel.

A case of error between developer and end user.

The normal end user, isn't even going to bother clicking the "more button".

Is that lazy? Sure.

But you have to think how the normal, average, none geek individual is going to go about things... Quick and easy.

 

[Jeremy]

The searching algorithm works based on newest dates. And it doesn't look for exact matches when you type Spiders XML. It searches for a combination of "Spiders" and "XML". Searching for "Spiders XML" brought the results right up. It's more user error than search algorithm error.

 

[Lisa]

A search for "random thoughts" brings up nothing but