This is a huge site and it has MANY posts so it isn't easy to track down old posts... The search extension needs to recognize parts of words and things of the sort.

I cannot remember the name of the type of search, but if you reconfigured the search so that it would recognize input such as -- 275* -- to find results like -- 275's -- it would make the engine much more efficient.

two examples. 1) there is a topic about "275's on OEM 19's" that I had seen the other day and I was talking to a friend and wanted to refer her to it... so I typed in 275, 275*, 19 OEM 275 and a bunch of other combinations with and without asterisks and retrieved ZERO results.

2) I wanted to learn how to adjust my clutch... so I typed "DIY clutch adjustment" and I got about 38 pages worth of clutch results. I found 4 or 5 relevant topics within the first 8 pages of those results. Then I had some guidance from a friend to look for a topic titled "WOW What a difference...clutch adjustment. Its like a new car" . So I typed that entire thing into the search... and got 11 pages worth of results!!! At first I thought he had mistakenly mislead me, but I realized I was wrong when the exact topic title came up on the 6th page of results!

I don't understand why it would act this way? Am I doing something wrong? I realized that there is a switch to choose to search titles only, but if it matches exactly, 99% of search engines out there would pull up the exact match first!

I think this is a big problem because when people search for things, they can't find it - then they ask in the forum and get ratted out for "not searching" when they actually did but they didn't type the EXACT text as it was in the Topic.

Can this be alleviated?

Adrian

 

I have to agree...
It would be good to have standard search syntax available.

Boolean (and or not), nesting, truncation (* wildcard place holders) etc...

Would be a huge improvement.

 

I don't know the terminology like the webmister- intgr8r but have to agree some major improvements are in order. I've hd the same experience as Jamaica2g on many topics myself. It's undoubtably frustrating for members many of whom would not even bother to try the number of combinations that were listed above.

 

I agree as well. I'd also like to add, that when performing a one-word search, like for "HKS", it comes up with no matches found....yet, there are many threads with HKS in it!? Not sure why that is.

 

There is a 4 character search word minimum, which I think eliminates a LOT of good search results. Admins, please lower the minimum to 3 characters!