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Improving Search

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mikeblas

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I sometimes find the search feature of this forum to be, well, less than adequate. Large threads are impossible to search: woe to you if your global search hits posts in such a thread.

Limiting repeated searches is understandable for resource management, but I wish I could search repeatedly sooner. The results from my first search always help me think of a better second search, and I have to count to sixty mississippi before I can do so. By then, my attention has wandered (sometimes even back to work!) and that's that.

If the site were more searchable, we'd better use the information here.

I've been thinking about doing something about it. I notice the site has no ROBOTS.TXT file. Is automated crawling of the forum allowed? To what limit? Would the site owners support (endorse, not pay for -- at least, not initially) an off-site searchable version of the pages here?
 
The 60-second rule is to keep the server load down and is unlikely to change.

vBulletin's search has been limited by (I believe) the past capabilities of PHP. Newer versions of PHP are supposed to be friendlier to more advanced searches, but those features have not yet been incorporated into vBull. They're supposedly working on improving it, but I wouldn't hold my breath.

If your search returns a long thread, you can always use the "Search this Thread" feature. And you can try an advanced search at google and limit the results to the hardforum.com domain.
 
You've failed to answer my key questions, and I'm not sure you read my note (Like I said, I completely understand why the time limit is in place). Is there someone else (or somewhere else) I should be asking?

Lethal said:
If your search returns a long thread, you can always use the "Search this Thread" feature.
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Yeah. Pretty crummy, too.

Lethal said:
And you can try an advanced search at google and limit the results to the hardforum.com domain.
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If I limit the search to hardforum.com, I can search only hardforum.com; that's great. But when Google crawled hardforum.com, it had singatures turned on. If I'm searching for a motherboard or some other part number, I get hundreds or thousands of false hits because many posters include that information in their signatures.
 
mikeblas said:
You've failed to answer my key questions, and I'm not sure you read my note (Like I said, I completely understand why the time limit is in place). Is there someone else (or somewhere else) I should be asking?.
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Yes, I read your entire post. What, this part?

I notice the site has no ROBOTS.TXT file. Is automated crawling of the forum allowed? To what limit? Would the site owners support (endorse, not pay for -- at least, not initially) an off-site searchable version of the pages here?
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I'm no expert on these things, but I believe that without a robots.txt file you can't keep the spiders out.

As for the site owner's support of what you propose, you would need to contact kyle@hardocp.com
 
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