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    • Bobotron
      Bobotron last edited by

      Is it just me, or does searching on this forum seem to be supremely difficult? It doesn't seem to care about 'best match' and just matches the first word in the list, whether you use normal enclosed search methods like quotation marks around the term or not. Is this something we could fix/adjust?

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      • il-volpe
        il-volpe last edited by

        I am mystified by it, as a search for "Game of Thrones", quotes included, gives me a bunch of messages that include the word 'of' but far from all the messages that include the word 'of' while seeming to ignore some of the posts that include the word "thrones." Fortunately, this forum isn't invisible to googlebot, so you can search it that way and have it work.

        "... you'll find the story doesn’t end how you think, and the most important characters aren’t who you expect.” - Penny 40 to Derek, The Magicians S04E07 ‘The Side Effect’

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        • Ninjakitten
          Ninjakitten last edited by Ninjakitten

          I noticed this too. It makes looking things up rather annoying, especially since the actual results don't always seem to show the part that it thinks was found. Also, it finds search terms within other words (and there doesn't seem to be a clear way to tell it you only want the term you typed, but I could be being obtuse) and the "in topic" thing so far seems to return other topics for me as much as the one I tried to search...

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          • Derp
            Derp Admin last edited by

            I long ago gave up on trying to search for things. I now just do my level best to try and remember vaguely where something was.

            Racism isn't Tinkerbell. It doesn't need you to believe in it for it to exist.

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            • Thenomain
              Thenomain last edited by

              I log everything that passes across my web browser so I can use a text editor and find stuff.

              “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
              ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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              • Misadventure
                Misadventure last edited by

                @Thenomain Daaaanng. That's commitment.

                I have a waggish sense of humor.

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                • Griatch
                  Griatch last edited by

                  Ah, I'm not alone! I was also confused why searching for an unusual word seems to produce so many spurious matches. For example, searching for "evennia" (completely random example) yields more than 50 matches, but only the first three are matches that actually contains the word - the rest ... I have no idea why they are relevant. I can only conclude it's because they contain "ev" or "eve" in some of their words. Which is not really all that useful when searching. Google search with a site: marker seems to be more reliable.
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                  Griatch

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                  • Glitch
                    Glitch last edited by

                    Yeah, the search sucks. Hardcore sucks. Google search with site really is the only way to get decent results, though it has fewer recent results.

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