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Geek Culture / Advanced Search available ??

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Graiskye
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Posted: 8th Aug 2006 21:35
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Well I wasnt sure where to place this post, so I thought Geek Culture was about the best spot. My query is simply this, are there any advanced search options available, if so how would I access them. My searches are sometimes coming back, well quite often actually, coming back empty, so I thought maybe advanced search, but I cannot find it? Thanks Grais.
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RUCCUS
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Posted: 9th Aug 2006 03:31
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Just start scaling down your search phrases, instead of "How to make an FPS" search "FPS", instead of "best method for sliding collision" search "sliding" and then search "collision", etc. Either that or use the google search.


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hyrichter
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Posted: 9th Aug 2006 03:55 Edited at: 9th Aug 2006 03:55
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The truth is that the search system on this site does suck. It just searches for the exact phrase you enter in and doesn't bother to break up the words and search for them in any order. I'll bet Rich was in a hurry when he decided to add a search feature to the forums, and this is probably his search code (no offense to Rich who is actually a great PHP coder ):


Err, umm, something like that. So, he just added a google search to try to fill in the need for a good searching system.

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ionstream
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Posted: 9th Aug 2006 04:29
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The Google searching doesn't include many, many threads, and therefore probably not a good method of searching threads. It is however the best searching method on the forum.

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hyrichter
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Posted: 9th Aug 2006 05:07
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The google search would be much more effective if we could get Rich to add the title of the thread into the page's title. Google searches the title first, and when every single thread just has the title of "The Game Creators - Forum - View Thread" it doesn't do so well for search rankings.

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