The search function sucks

[flyhere]

Is it just me or the search function here sucks?

For a start, the wild card no longer works for searches of less than 4 characters, it used to work. So Ada* or *Ada* does not work. Lots of names are 3 characters.

Then multiple-word searches don't work, so you're out of luck looking for, say, "New World". On many forum, it's pretty standard to put multiple-word searches in double quotes, not here. So New World without quotes will ignore the word New and will return results for the word World, that's pretty useless.

Try New*World, that will say "less than 4 characters blah blah blah"

So I think the search function is a useless piece of crap.

 

[tonym6969]

You can try to use Google Search at the top right corner.

There are no restrictions.

 

[DaBoneman]

Is it just me or the search function here sucks?

For a start, the wild card no longer works for searches of less than 4 characters, it used to work. So Ada* or *Ada* does not work. Lots of names are 3 characters.

Then multiple-word searches don't work, so you're out of luck looking for, say, "New World". On many forum, it's pretty standard to put multiple-word searches in double quotes, not here. So New World without quotes will ignore the word New and will return results for the word World, that's pretty useless.

Try New*World, that will say "less than 4 characters blah blah blah"

So I think the search function is a useless piece of crap.

Try using the underscore '_'

Searching for Ada_ should get you the results you want.

 

[luv-em-n-lv-em]

You can try to use Google Search at the top right corner.

There are no restrictions.

Google Search is better in some ways & worse in others - at least compared to PERB's Advanced Search. For example searching for posts only from a certain user or from a certain forum cannot be done properly using the Google Search.

 

[Fred Zed]

A bad workman blames his tools

Is it just me or the search function here sucks?

For a start, the wild card no longer works for searches of less than 4 characters, it used to work. So Ada* or *Ada* does not work. Lots of names are 3 characters.

Then multiple-word searches don't work, so you're out of luck looking for, say, "New World". On many forum, it's pretty standard to put multiple-word searches in double quotes, not here. So New World without quotes will ignore the word New and will return results for the word World, that's pretty useless.

Try New*World, that will say "less than 4 characters blah blah blah"

So I think the search function is a useless piece of crap.

It's quite easy to get round those problems. Are you too lazy too add quotes to multiple terms ??? or new+world ..sometimes using advanced search also helps.

 

[flyhere]

It's quite easy to get round those problems. Are you too lazy too add quotes to multiple terms ??? or new+world ..sometimes using advanced search also helps.

You obviously didn't read my all of my post, I DID mention the quotes.