ORIGINAL: RCadmin
ORIGINAL: MinnFlyer
Ok, I didn't notice the filters on the second page, i was looking for them on the first page.
I like how fast it is!
Yup..the idea is why force a user to select a forum from a dropdown or select list before finding where the term may exist. Now you search it and then you can decide with a single click what forum you want to filter in.
Our average search on the old engine was over 30 seconds.
I'm still toying with the stemming logic and want to decide if we want to search for say "servo" if we should deliver "servos" too or vice versa. We can change the algorithm so it ONLY finds the exact word you put in and does not stem to find plurals or variants (i.e. flying, fly). It was suggested to me that we should stem words. Alternately if we don't you could simply do a wildcard like servo? or servo* where servo? would find servos, servon, servot and servo* would find servotronics, servomatic, servorama, etc. This comes down to preference maybe. I like exact hits. Some others like the stemming. This is mostly what I'd like feedback on.
I kind of like the idea of both, if it's possible. I know what I am looking for, so if i enter the exact word or phrase I will get a hit. OK fine, but I'm sure you have noticed that the spelling here, as on most message forums is absolutely atrocious. Now granted that may be due to to typos, or people whose native language is something other than english, but either way there is often information relevant to a search wherein the keywords may be spelled wrong. I think stemming might help with that. You gave the example that servo? will return servot or I would guess servod. Hmm "D" is right next to "S" on the keyboard. a typo, yet I could still find it.
OF course servos in the search field would return approx 16 trillion hits and would thus not be too helpful
