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Searching question

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Jivemiguel

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I have been getting very frustrated with the search system for this forum. I usually hang out in the for sale/trade forums. I was just looking for someone selling counter strike: condition zero. I searched for "condition zero" (no quotes) and I got back a load of posts that have just the word 'condition' in them (as in 'good condition', etc.). So I thought what if I search with quotes around the string, showing that I want that exact string, 'condition zero'. Nope... same results. Am I doing something wrong? Is there a general search tutorial or something???

THanks in advance!
 
I found This by looking up "Counter Strike", but nothing came up under "Zero Condition" and it's old, so it might just be that there isn't anything to find :)
 
First, let's keep in mind that these forums are primarily hardware focused. You might go to the games forum and do a forum specific search though. Sorry for the lack of content, but I don't see much on our forums about it at all. Might try over at our Counter Strike servers site, www.hardgaming.com.
 
I searched with "condition zero" (including quotes) and it only returned 3 threads in FS. All of which were people wanting the game, not selling.

when I searched with "condition zero" (no quotes) I got a ton of threads.

Try searching with the quotes again. It seems to work for me.
 
There's always this method, and then if you need to revise your search terms you don't have to deal with the search frequency limit either.
 
ScubaSteve is correct..I was trying to remember if it was ( ), { }, [ ] or ** to get the results you were looking for, just didn't have the correct combination with the right words, doh! :p
 
The search feature in vBulletin is not exactly robust. I believe it had to do with limitations in MySQL which have since changed, and improvements should be forthcoming in a future vBull release.
 
Odds of it being implemented, given the high number of users and interest in not breaking the forum or bogging down the forum running searches?
 
Thanks to all who responded. I like the google method... good idea. I know from using Vbulletin on other sites that the search system is not well developed. And I understand about not wanting to break the site with an update. Ah well, I raise a beer to [H]ard anyway!

:D :D
 
Heh, I don't know anything one way or the other about that...I was asking. The PTB tend to be a bit cautious about changing things for the sake of changing thigns when it already works fine, for all I know they'll decide a vBull release is worth the trouble.
 
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