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The search function is now turned back on. We are using a new search engine that is much faster and produces less server load. It does however limit a couple of lesser used native VB search features. Let us know your experiences and issues with the new search please!
 
I tried a couple of times when it appeared and it's lighting fast compared to the old system. I didn't notice anything missing so it's golden for me :)

 
Search is good.

BUT

"The administrator has disabled Who's Online." :(
 
RoBo said:
Search is good.

BUT

"The administrator has disabled Who's Online." :(
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This causes some pretty big loads to even look at those pages. I am unsure why you really need it when the Currently Active Users is listed on the front page (which I need to put back in alphabetical order this morning.) So if you can give me a good reason as to why, I am listening.
 
Hmm when I searched X38 it came back with no matches, but when I searched through google X38 comes back with the results I expected/wanted. :confused:
 
Moofasa~ said:
Hmm when I searched X38 it came back with no matches, but when I searched through google X38 comes back with the results I expected/wanted. :confused:
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That is because current searching with only 3 characters is turned off. We will turn it back on in the future if loads look OK. 4 is default limit.
 
Ok...maybe I'm just missing something but I don't think it isn't working quite up to par. I did a search for "M2A-VM" (in reference to a Asus M2A-VM) and found nothing, but I had a thread a couple of days requesting help on my latest build, and my following nimrod mistake (see thread: http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1206029):D. Now, shouldn't have this popped up when the search was executed as the search criteria is met, ie 4 chars, or is the "-VM" not being counted because of the "-"?

I should note, if I do a search for "Asus M2A-VM", mine and several others do come up, but i belive that is only due to it picking up "Asus" in the threads vs the "M2A-VM".

Maybe it's just me:confused:

On a side note, thanks for the hard work of turning this feature back on....felt so neutered trying to look for past threads. :D
 
litkaj said:
Did you switch to Sphinx? If so, I doubt I'll be disappointed as that's what I use on all of the sites I run. Make sure that you drop the existing full-text indexes though as they are no longer needed (and dropping them can speed up INSERTs and UPDATEs).
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Kyle did mention it recently. See here.

Kyle, the only thing I've noticed is that sometimes when I am searching for posts and click a result, it randomly plops me on the page but not at that exact post. For example, I searched on your name and the word "sphinx" because I seemed to remember you mentioning it, and when I clicked the post link, it took me to the top of the page your post was on, not directly to your post.
 
Hooray for search! Makes rummaging through sale threads a bit easier in finding what I'm looking for. Thanks!
 
JBrinley said:
doesnt have match "whole phrase" or "part of phrase"
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Looking into this a bit more, say if you type in NVIDIA GEFORCE it looks to be giving you both sets of results, full phrase and seperate entries. I will look into this some more.
 
quotations pulls up the results separately as well, it doesnt seem to be having the effect of just pulling results with the exact phrase match >_<
 
0mega said:
quotations pulls up the results separately as well, it doesnt seem to be having the effect of just pulling results with the exact phrase match >_<
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That is what I get, same results with and without quotes that both have full phrase and individual results.
 
0mega said:
meaning the quotes dont weed out seperate results, here is an example of what i was trying to find last night

- "7950 gx2" vista - was the search string

all i ended up getting were results involving 7950 gt's and nothing conclusive about what I needed :(
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Well, that's because "gx2" was ignored due to the 4-char minimum currently configured. If they decide to drop it to 3 characters (which will come close to doubling the index size) then that search results would have only included posts that had the words "7950", "gx2", and "vista" in them.
 
litkaj said:
Well, that's because "gx2" was ignored due to the 4-char minimum currently configured. If they decide to drop it to 3 characters (which will come close to doubling the index size) then that search results would have only included posts that had the words "7950", "gx2", and "vista" in them.
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ahh crap i forgot the limit again >_< regardless, it doesnt look like phrase search is working to ignore anything but the phrase :(
 
Right now if you use paranthesis, you will get full phrase. It will however not highlight correctly unless you edit the url on the thread/post.

Example: (NVIDIA GEFORCE)

We will get this fixed.
 
Currently this is how it works. We will likely be changing some of these things in the future or laying out better instructions.

http://www.sphinxsearch.com/doc.html#searching

Boolean queries allow the following special operators to be used:

explicit operator AND:
hello & world (AND is always implied)

operator OR:
hello | world

operator NOT:
hello -world
hello !world

grouping:
( hello world )

Here's an example query which uses all these operators:

Example 4. Boolean query example

( cat -dog ) | ( cat -mouse)




There always is implicit AND operator, so "hello world" query actually means "hello & world".

OR operator precedence is higher than AND, so "looking for cat | dog | mouse" means "looking for ( cat | dog | mouse )" and not "(looking for cat) | dog | mouse".

Queries like "-dog", which implicitly include all documents from the collection, can not be evaluated. This is both for technical and performance reasons. Technically, Sphinx does not always keep a list of all IDs. Performance-wise, when the collection is huge (ie. 10-100M documents), evaluating such queries could take very long.
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THANK YOU!

It's fast and works well. I didnt realize how much I depend on that feature!!.
 
I did a search for Aqua Computer and it only turned up 36 hits. Also there was nothing farther back than 6-4-2007. What happened to the threads before June in the search index?
 
Disabling the who's online is a good idea. I don't think anyone really needs to see that, to be honest. However, if the new database server can handle it, I say re-enable it. ;) But the settings as they are now are great, so keep up the good work guys.
 
Top Nurse said:
I did a search for Aqua Computer and it only turned up 36 hits. Also there was nothing farther back than 6-4-2007. What happened to the threads before June in the search index?
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Yes, we are having this issue with all searches. Still working.
 
Just want to let you guys know, I'm thankful that it is back, I was just about to get used with this :p
 
Thanks for posting the search operators. It would be very cool if they were linked to from the search page in some form or another, if possible. Good work getting everything back up and running.
 
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