Search engine needs a bit of work

[Dreadnought]

It leaves out words that are either too short or too common. Rather justified, but it also pretty much ignores quotation marks, which, together with above, is rather unconventional: There could be threads about something like "You me is be", and it'd find exactly zero.

You get my point.

[Micolithe]

I don't actually think there's a way to fix that unless vBulletin releases a patch for it.

[Veserius]

There is probably a hack.

[Micolithe]

Probably but I've seen this forum implode on itself before.

[HotPuppy]

In before shitty google search bar gets implemented.

[Veserius]

Or people could just use google.

[Dreadnought]

In before shitty google search bar gets implemented.

Totally not my fault.

[Skee]

I wasn't aware people used the search

[Dreadnought]

I wasn't aware people used the search

If I want to find a particularly old thread, or make a new one and see if there's one about it already. Is cool.

[Rama]

Yeah, I'd love the search feature if it actually worked worth a damn.

It's great for searching for posts that contain specific words, like searching to see when a certain band was mentioned. That works fine.


But if I search for a thread, and type in the name of a video game, even if the thread is named exactly the same thing I typed in, the thread will be like on the 3rd or 4th page, with far less relevant threads appearing on the 1st page.

[Veserius]

Search in thread titles only perchance?

[Seraphna]

Learn2Search I suppose...

Cuz well, I'm not risking hacks due to their history with this forums, and otherwise the only hope we have is a vBulliten update.