Search function WTF - TTLG Forums

Insertnamehere on 11/6/2004 at 10:53

Oi, search function down again?! I typed in 'Lorgan's Web' an' 'Ominous Bequest, but no results?

David on 11/6/2004 at 11:11

Removing the apostrophe from Lorgan's Web got a bunch of results. I didn't have to do anything to get 133 Ominous Bequest results.

*tries other search terms*

mopgoblin on 11/6/2004 at 11:15

<a href="http://www.ttlg.com/forums/search.php?searchid=9059">http://www.ttlg.com/forums/search.php?searchid=9059</a> (searching with lorgan* web - I think the apostrophe confuses it).

<a href="http://www.ttlg.com/forums/search.php?searchid=9060">http://www.ttlg.com/forums/search.php?searchid=9060</a> (I didn't have to change anything here - perhaps you mistyped it on the search page?).

Edit: Damn. Not fast enough, it seems.

Edit again: However, there is an actual problem when searching for another mission.

Quote:

The following words are either very common, too long, or too short and were not included in your search : the, keep

I guess there's not much that can be done about that, though...

David on 11/6/2004 at 11:32

I have (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/bugs.php?do=view&bugid=2990) submitted a bug report regarding the apostrophe.

I wonder where the list of common words is held? It doesn't appear to be a option. Hrm, maybe I will ask.

Wuggles on 11/6/2004 at 16:36

Just a guess, I don't know too much what I'm talking about... maybe when you use an apostrophe Its thinking OMG!! U R TEH SQL INJECTORZ and just says "no results" instead of "Hey don't do that"

David on 11/6/2004 at 16:45

Its possible, but its also easy to remove apostrophes from the search query before executing it, as it appears to return the correct results.

MsLedd on 11/6/2004 at 17:48

Quote Posted by David

I wonder where the list of common words is held? It doesn't appear to be a option. Hrm, maybe I will ask.

Yeah but allowing words like "the" and "keep" will return EVERY THREAD, EVER. What the search needs is an exact phrase option.

David on 11/6/2004 at 18:17

I guess, however as the search fucntion uses a search index I expect that it doesn't even index the common words which means an Exact Phrase wouldn't work.

MsLedd on 11/6/2004 at 18:37

If it doesn't index them, how does it know that they are common? (heheh, I know what you mean)

I think an exact phrase feature is more of a core thing than any sort of add-on, by that I mean such a search function would require a whole new engine. Still it'd be nice to have.

An alternate way to achieve this, however, is to use Google to search (www.ttlg.com) for the exact phrase "the keep" (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&q=site%3Awww.ttlg.com+%22the+keep%22&btnG=Search) LIKE THIS.

dj_ivocha on 13/6/2004 at 15:36

Quote Posted by MsLedd

An alternate way to achieve this, however, is to use Google to search (www.ttlg.com) for the exact phrase "the keep" (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&q=site%3Awww.ttlg.com+%22the+keep%22&btnG=Search) LIKE THIS.

Hmm, isn't it possible to somehow include a google search option into TTLG, so that you don't have to use the above syntax? I mean, like there is "Search only sites in German/French/...", "Search only TTLG" would be helpful.

[EDIT] (http://www.google.com/searchcode.html#both) This seems to be what I was having in mind.