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reddishblue

I was searching for the game "Destroy All Humans", with only the game forum.
The topic actually titled "Destroy All Humans" was result 32!
Now is it just me or does our search function absolutely SUCK, why would the most relevant topic come number 32 while irrelevant topics are much more numerous?
I think we should replace it with Google search, which finds far better results, it really wouldn't take that long and when people next search, they may find what they are looking for.

Red

mathiaus

The phpBB search isn't the best though if used properly it does work. For instance, when using multiple words or a phrase, check the 'Search for all terms' box. When doing this, your topic is number #3 out of a much smaller number.

The problem with google is waiting for it to index pages (the topic you are refering to isn't indexed yet so can't be found at all! Not indexed. There is though no problem with you using it yourself, in a different tab for instance

Blaster

Bondings should find a way to intergrate the new phpbb3 search into this. Or if he can the search they use for vbulletin. That IMO is the best search there is for a forum.

alexdude

I'm not sure what phpBB version this is. Maybe in a later version the problem was resolved.

I'm pretty sure other forums like SMF and Invision have a lot better search functions. Hey, you get what you pay for! Laughing

Bondings

alexdude

Alright, I've also seen some other forums use the google search engine for search. Good Idea!

garionw

http://www.frihost.com/forums/vt-54718.html :cough: :cough:

Bockman

A small tip for phpBB searches (I'll use your searched words for it):

When searching, if Search for all terms resolves too many results, you can limit the search even further by using:

1 - Search for any terms or use query as entered
2 - Insert your search using the AND boolean
--- This would be, on this case -> Destroy AND All AND Humans
3 - Limit the search to the forum or category whenever possible (I limited to Games forum only, as you did)

You can after sort by post time or post subject to better suit your needs.

This search, sorting by post time, gave me the following result:

reddishblue

That seems good, but I really think a Google search would help Frihost very much, PLEASE (I'm on my knees Razz

) put this in place, imagine how few noobs would duplicate topics instead of searching when the recognizable "Google" logo, who everyone knows means search.

This is for the best for Frihost, and us all!

Animal

Bondings

As Animal mentioned, the problem of Google is that they don't index our pages fast enough (up to 2 weeks) and also that not all pages are in their index. They recently reduced their active index and it will take a lot of tweaking to get all of them back in it.

garionw

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