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Old 05-25-2004 | 02:37 PM
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Default RE: Search Function?

I know what he's talking about... and it's a problem with a lot of forums' search engines.
For instance, in this search, the Capiche thread comes up. When you click on the link,
it takes you to the thread, but not to a post that contains the word "chaos".
Who knows how many of the 3,661 replies you'd have to go through to find that word?
(I can tell you it's not in the first 5 pages or 150 posts... but I didn't check further.)

A better search would be one that, when you clicked a result link, you ended up on a page
actually containing the word you searched for, instead of having to go 10 pages deep... looking.
(I know it's a limitation of the software, and table layout, as written... not slamming the RCU guys)


Marc's right though... a bit more narrow on the search, and it gets much better.
For instance, choosing just the word "chaos" as you did... but selecting "search terms in subject only"
returns 14 relevant, of 16 total records... instead of 203 records with only a fraction really relevant.