Forum Search Engine Suggestion

KeyserSoze · Post by **KeyserSoze** » Mon May 31, 2010 3:02 am

Example -- If I were to type "shoe store" into the search engine, it would pull up about 100 pages of results featuring any posts with the words "shoe" and/or "store". If I put "shoe store", it being just one word, in quotes, I wouldn't get any results back.

I'm wondering if the search engine could be modified to where you could:

-have the option of searching a certain forum(or forums)
-have to the option to be able to enter terms in quotes and get results
-have the option whether or not to search an entire thread or just posts

just to make things easier for us.

Dead Parrot · Post by **Dead Parrot** » Mon May 31, 2010 3:13 am

As for the technical aspects of this suggestion, I'll have to refer you to Nyllover.

For your example search, try shoe-store with a dash between words and see if that returns some more specific results.

Cheers,

DP

KeyserSoze · Post by **KeyserSoze** » Mon May 31, 2010 4:27 am

Thank you -- I'll try that.

As for referring to nyllover, did you want me to contact him directly, or just leave this thread for him to eventually take a look at?

Dead Parrot · Post by **Dead Parrot** » Mon May 31, 2010 4:55 am

No need to do anything further. He'll see this post in the forum.

DP

Post by **nyllover** » Mon May 31, 2010 8:13 am

Many of the options you are looking for are in the advanced search (accessible from the link here on the left column):
http://www.nyllover.com/phpBB2/search.php

KeyserSoze · Post by **KeyserSoze** » Mon May 31, 2010 6:54 pm

Never got that -- thank you very much.